splatter

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  1. transitive verb To spatter (something), especially to soil with splashes of liquid.
  2. intransitive verb To spatter, especially to move or fall so as to cause splashes.
  3. noun A splash of liquid.
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  • Another fae-nee sniffed at the splatter, then lapped it up. —  Witch Star.htm
  • Northward, stretching out for many miles, was a lake, looking like a splatter of dull quicksilver in the growing dusk Doc was diving now. —  161 - Fire And Ice
  • I left EC 1 and whacked the 190 up through Hackney until I got the Lea Valley reservoirs on my right like a splatter of moonlit verglas. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 01 - July 1999
  • For those who felt that 28 Days Later wasn't gruesome enough to be a true horror flick, you will likely enjoy the splatter-fest that Mr. Fresnadillo offers much better. —  FSF,October2007
  • With the splatter, numerous flames were extinguished, and many voices began to swear and shout I hope I'm wrong," Gorlen said to Taian, who was gathering the smoky cloaks, "but isn't that Jezzle down there Taian gasped and flung herself to the rail. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Perhaps blend of splash and spatter.

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  1. Prob. a variant of spatter, like splutter as related to sputter. Cf. splot.
 

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