splatter
verbEtymology Uncertain. Emerged 1780s.https://www.etymonline.com/word/splatter Possibly a blend of splash + spatter.
1
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.
2
To cause (something) to splatter.
- He splattered paint onto the wall.
3
To spatter (something or somebody).
- The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 59:
- Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds.2012, Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise, page 100:
- Derived terms
- nonsplattering, splatstick, splatterdash, splatterday, splatterer, splatterfest, splatterproof, splatterpunk, splattersome, splatterwork, splattery, unsplattered