Bespatter

Definition: Bespatter

Bespatter

Verb

1. Spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bespatter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)

Note: Bespatter \Be*spat"ter\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Bespattered; present participle verb or noun Bespattering.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Bespatter

Detraction

Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.

Disapprobation

Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Crosswords: Bespatter

Albanian

njollos (blacken, blemish, blot, blur, cloud, defile, dye, imbrue, smear, smirch, smudge, splash, splotch, spot, stain, sully), ndot (bedaub, besmirch, contaminate, defile, dirty, disgust, foul, grime, pollute, repugnance, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وحل (clay, dirt, mire, mud, muddling, muddy, ooze, quaggy, silt, slime, slob), ‏زين باللمع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

клеветя (asperse, bad-mouth, calumniate, defame, denigrate, libel, slander, slur, spatter, traduce, vilify), опръсквам (dash, perfuse), оплювам (spit at, spit upon), пръскам (frizz, scatter, shed, shoot, spatter, spit, splash, sprinkle, squirt, throw, throw about), плескам (dirty, soil, spatter). (various references)

Czech

postříkat (dabble, spatter, splash, sprinkle). (various references)

Dutch

besprenkelen (spatter, splash, sprinkle, water), bespatten (spatter, splash, sprinkle). (various references)

Esperanto

surŝprucigi (spatter, splash, sprinkle). (various references)

Farsi 

سرتاپاکثیف کردن , باطراف پاشیدن . (various references)

French

éclabousser. (various references)

German

bespritzen (besprinkle, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, squirt, to splash). (various references)

Greek 

λερώνω (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blacken, defile, dirty, foul, grime, moil, set off, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splotch, spot, stain, sully), δυσφημώ (black, blacken, decry, defame, denigrate, discredit, disparage, libel, malign, slander, slur, traduce, vilify). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תיז בוץ. (various references)

Hungarian

besároz (Drabble, mire, mud, muddy, slush, to dirty, to mire, to muddy). (various references)

Indonesian

menyimbah (appear, break out, splash), memerciki (dabble, dapple, slop). (various references)

Italian

infangare (bemire, Drabble, draggle, mire, muddy, soil, throw mud). (various references)

Manx

laaghey (bemire, mud, of a mire). (various references)

Pig Latin

espatterbay

Portuguese

salpicar (bedabble, dabble, dapple, dash, dredger, flash, fleck, flecker, freak, pepper, speckle), ofender (abuse, affront, aggrieve, bruise, despite, dishonor, dishonour, displeasing, grieve, harmful, huff, hurt, injure, insult, miscarriage, offend, outrageous, shock, stab), lisonjear (beslobber, blandish, butter, butter up, cajole, coax, cog, flatter, jolly, lacking, lacrosse, palaver, soft soap, wheedle). (various references)

Romanian

stropi cu noroi, împroşca (dash, insult, pepper, spatter, splash, splatter, sputter). (various references)

Russian 

забрызгивать (besprinkle, dabble, squirt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poprskati (besprinkle, intersperse, slosh, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle), obasuti (besiege, hurl, rain, shower). (various references)

Spanish

salpicar (besprinkle, dabble, fleck, lard, pepper, plash, salt, scatter, spatter, speckle, splash, splatter, sprinkle, tag). (various references)

Swedish

besudla (besmirch, defile, pollute, soil, tarnish), nedstänka. (various references)

Turkish

leke sürmek (besmirch one's name, cast a slur on, dishonor, dishonour, put a slur on, slur, soil), iftira etmek (asperse, back bite, backbite, be defamatory of smb., calumniate, cast a slur on, cast the blame, defame, denigrate, malign, put a slur on, scandalize, slander, smut, speak evil of, traduce, vilify), çamurlamak (bedrabble, bedraggle, bemire, mire, muddy, puddle, puddle about, slime, soil with mud), çamur sıçratmak (sling mud at, splash with mud), çamur atmak (asperse, calumniate, cast aspersions upon smb., fling dirt at smb., frame, frame up, malign, slander, sling ink, sling mud at, spatter, throw dirt at smb., traduce). (various references)

Ukranian 

чорнити (begrime, black, denigrate, nigrify, worsen), зводити наклеп (calumniate, cant, cast aspersions, defame, denigrate, libel, malign, slander), забризкувати гряззю, бруднити (befoul, begrime, blur, daub, dirty, discolor, discolour, foul, mess up, muck, muss, smear, smudge, soil, sully). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bespatter": bespattered, bespattering, bespatters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bespatter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: besmatter, bespatted, bespittled. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: abetters, berettas, peartest, pretaste.

-2 letters: abetter, batters, beaters, berates, beretta, betters, estreat, patters, pertest, petters, pretest, rebates, repeats, restate, retapes, retaste, septate, spatter, tapster.

-3 letters: aptest, aretes, barest, baster, batter, beater, berate, berets, bettas, better, breast, easter, eaters, estate, etapes, paster, paters, pattee, patter, peseta, pester, peters, petter, prates, preset, rebate, repast, repeat.

+1 letter: bespatters.

+2 letters: bespattered, breastplate.

+3 letters: baptisteries, bespattering, breastplates, presbyterate, subtemperate.

+4 letters: presbyterates, subdepartment.

+5 letters: presentability, reputabilities, respectability, subdepartments, subtherapeutic.

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