spatter

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: spatteringsplattersplatteringsputterspluttersputteringsplashsplashingplashsploshswashsprinkle

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively“he heard a spatter of gunfire”Synonyms: spatteringsplattersplatteringsputterspluttersputtering
  2. the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surfaceSynonyms: spatteringsplashsplashingsplattering

Verb (3)

  1. dash a liquid upon or against“The mother splashed the baby's face with water”Synonyms: splatterplashsplashsploshswash
  2. rain gently“It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick”Synonyms: sprinklespitpatterpitter-patter
  3. spot, splash, or soil“The baby spattered the bib with food”Synonyms: bespatter
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] [From the root of spit salvia.]

1.To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. [1913 Webster]

Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people.— Burke.[1913 Webster]

2.To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

3.Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner. [1913 Webster]

Spatter \Spat"ter\, v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. [1913 Webster]

That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

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