spatter, spattering, splash, splashing, splattering
(noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering
(noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; “he heard a spatter of gunfire”
spatter, splatter, plash, splash, splosh, swash
(verb) dash a liquid upon or against; “The mother splashed the baby’s face with water”
spatter, bespatter
(verb) spot, splash, or soil; “The baby spattered the bib with food”
sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter-patter
(verb) rain gently; “It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spatter (third-person singular simple present spatters, present participle spattering, simple past and past participle spattered)
(transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
(transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
(transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
(transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
(intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
(obsolete, transitive, figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.
• (cover or lie upon by having been scattered): strew
spatter (plural spatters)
A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
(figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
(figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
• PERSTAT, Prattes, p'taters, partest, patters, perstat, tapster, trap set, trapset
Source: Wiktionary
Spat"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering.] Etym: [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. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.
2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. Pope.
3. Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
Spat"ter, v. i.
Definition: To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 January 2025
(noun) a severe dermatitis of herbivorous domestic animals attributable to photosensitivity from eating Saint John’s wort
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
