splatter
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Etymology
Uncertain. Emerged 1780s. Possibly a blend of splash + spatter.
Pronunciation
Noun
splatter (countable and uncountable, plural splatters)
- An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
- He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.
- (uncountable, attributive) A genre of gory horror.
- splatter film; splatter movie
- (uncountable, radio) Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
splatter (third-person singular simple present splatters, present participle splattering, simple past and past participle splattered)
- (intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.
- The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.
- He splattered paint onto the wall.
- (transitive) To spatter (something or somebody).
- 2012, Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise, page 100:
- Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds.
Translations
To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess
To cause something to splatter
Anagrams
Etymology
Noun
splatter c
- splatter (genre of gory horror)
Declension
| Declension of splatter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | splatter | splattern | — | — |
| Genitive | splatters | splatterns | — | — |
Derived terms
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