Spatter

Definition: Spatter

Spatter

Noun

1. The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire".

2. The act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface.

Verb

1. Dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water".

2. Rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick.".

3. 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 "spatter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1765. (references)

Synonyms: Spatter

Uncleanness

Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil.

Crosswords: Spatter

Books

• Walt Disney spatter and dash : paint and color fun (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Spatter Cone in the lava beds of the Devil's Garden Wilderness Study Area. OR 3-128. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "spatter": spatter with mud. Additional references.

Beginning with "spatter": Spatter-dock, spatter-work.

Albanian

spërkat (asperse, bedew, besprinkle, damp, dampen, dash, dew, perfuse, plash, slosh, sparge, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), spërkë (plash, splatter, spot, spray, sputter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسا بالبقع, ‏نثر بالترشيش (splatter, sprinkle), ‏لوث برشاش سائل (splatter), ‏ترشيش (splatter), ‏طشاش, ‏أصاب في عدة أماكن, ‏رش الماء (splash), ‏رش (asperse, besprinkle, dabble, dust, powder, spirt, splash, splatter, spray, spraying, sprinkle, squirt), ‏شوه السمعة (blacken, defame, slander, smear, soil, splatter), ‏بقعة (blot, blotch, macula, patch, smear, smudge, speck, splash, splotch, spot, stain, streak, terrain). (various references)

Bulgarian 

черня (black, calumniate, disparage, slander), тракам (chatter, clank, clatter, pink, rattle), клеветя (asperse, bad-mouth, bespatter, calumniate, defame, denigrate, libel, slander, slur, traduce, vilify), оплесквам (besmear, dash, dub, foozle, foul up, hash, louse up, make a mess, make sad work of, mess, muddle, muff, screw up, slobber, splash, sully), пръскам (bespatter, frizz, scatter, shed, shoot, spit, splash, sprinkle, squirt, throw, throw about), потракване (patter, rattle), плескам (bespatter, dirty, soil), плискане (lap, plash, slosh, swash, wash), плискам се (dabble, lap, plash, slop about, swash, wash), плискам (plash, slosh, slush, splash, throw), изпръскване, изпръсквам (splash). (various references)

Chinese 

飞溅声. (various references)

Czech

skvrna (blob, blot, blotch, blur, carbuncle, fleck, macula, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, speck, splash, spot, stain, taint, tarnish), zneuctít (desecrate, dishonor, dishonour, pollute, profane), prskat (hiss, sizzle, spit, splutter, sputter), postříkat (bespatter, dabble, splash, sprinkle), pokropit (besprinkle, sparge, spray, sprinkle, water), pošpinit (besmirch, blemish, defile, soil, stain, taint, tarnish, thumb), cákanec (splash). (various references)

Danish

sproejt (cold shot, entrapped cold shot, expulsion, shot iron, splash, splatter, spray). (various references)

Dutch

spat (spavin, splash, splatter), besprenkelen (bespatter, splash, sprinkle, water), bespatten (bespatter, splash, sprinkle). (various references)

Esperanto

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

Farsi 

پاشیدن (Infusion, Inseminate, Pour, Spray, Sprinkle, Spurtle, Strew), مقدارکم (Modicum, Morsel, Smidgen, Snatch), ترشح کردن (Discharge, Plash, Secrete, Splash, Splatter, Splutter, Sprinkle), ترشح (Discharge, Splutter, Spray, Sprinkle), الودن (Ntaminate, Pollute, Smear, Tincture). (various references)

Finnish

roiske (splash, spray), roiskahtaa (splash), räiskyttää (sprinkle), räiskyä (crackle, sparkle, splash), räiske (crackle, spray), pärskyttää (splash), pärskyä (splash). (various references)

French

éclaboussure (splash, splatter). (various references)

German

Spritzer (blob, dash, speck, splash, sprinkle, squeeze, squirt), spritzen (bespatter, dabble, gush, hose, inject, pipe, slosh, spit, splash, splash up, spout, spray, sprinkle, spurt, spurt out, sputter, squirt, syringe, syringes), bespritzen (bespatter, besprinkle, splash, splatter, spray, squirt, to splash). (various references)

Greek 

ραντίζω (asperse, atomize, dash, plash, spray, sprinkle, squirt), πιτσιλίζω (paddle, splash), εκτοξεύσεις μετάλλου (splash, splatter), ψιχάλα (dribble, drizzle, mizzle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפזר (diffuse, disband, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, scatter, sow, spread, strew), להתיז (ricochet, slosh, splatter, spray, sputter), התזה (cutting off, splash, splutter, sprinkling, sputter). (various references)

Hungarian

fröcskölés (splash, splatter, splutter), sárfolt (splash, splatter), kopogás (blatter, clattering, clop, jarring, knock, knocking, ping, pit-a-pat, rapping, splatter, tattoo), csöpögés (drip, dripping, dropping, splatter, weeping), befröcskölés (aspersion, splatter, splurge). (various references)

Indonesian

percik. (various references)

Italian

spruzzare (dash, inject, slosh, spit, splash, spout, spray, sprinkle, spurt, squirt, wash), schizzo (dab, draft, shell, sketch, splash, spurt, squirt, stain), schizzare (adumbrate, bedabble, dabble, jet, jump, sketch, splash, splash up, splatter, spring, spurt, squirt), proiezione (projection, screening, showing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ぺてん師 (crook, flowers heads of beefsteak plant, fluency, fluent, imposter, not soggy, steamy hot food, swindler, to babble, to be pleased with oneself, to brawl, to chuckle to oneself, to grumble, to murmur, to prate, to prattle, to spatter, warm), 泥跳ね (mud spatter, splash of mud). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

どろはね (mud spatter, splash of mud), ほざく (to babble, to brawl, to grumble, to murmur, to prate, to prattle, to spatter). (various references)

Korean 

튀김 (Flipping, Fries, FRYING, spattering, splashing). (various references)

Manx

spreih (issue, issue of gas, splash, spray, sprinkle, spurt, sputter), slaa (bedaub, besmear, blotch of colour, dash, daub, daubing, paint; blotting, painting, plaster, smarm, smear, smearing; dab of paint, spread, spreading), crottey (daub, spot). (various references)

Pig Latin

atterspay.(various references)

Portuguese

salpicos (expulsion, splash, splatter), salpico de lama (dash, plash), chuveiro (shower, shower-bath, showerhead, sprinkler), borrifo (aspersion, splash, spray, sprinkling). (various references)

Romanian

stropiturã (aspersion, drop, sprinkle, sprinkling), stropi (asperse, beddable, besmear, besmirch, dabble, damp, dash, drop, irrigate, perfuse, smear, smirch, sparge, speck, splash, splatter, splutter, spray, sprinkle, sputter, squirt, water), strop (atom, bead, bit, drop, grain, nip, ounce, Pearl, peg, speck, spot), patã (blemish, blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, ulcer), pârâit, pârâialã, defãima (asperse, belie, black, blemish, bring reproach upon, calumniate, cast a slur upon, defame, denigrate, depreciate, disparage, libel, put a slur upon, slander, slur, smear, traduce, vilify), calomnia (backbite, besmirch, calumniate, decry, defame, libel, malign, slander, stab smb. in the back, traduce), împroşcãturã (dab), împroşca (bespatter, dash, insult, pepper, splash, splatter, sputter). (various references)

Russian 

брызгать (dash, sparge, splash, splatter, splutter, sprinkle, sputter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prsnuti (burst, burst into, burst out, splash), prskati (sparge, sprinkle, water), prskanje (douche, splash, spraying, sprinkling), groktanje. (various references)

Spanish

salpicadura (plash, splash, splatter, sprinkle, sprinkling). (various references)

Swedish

stänkande, stänka ner (bedabble, dabble, splatter), stänka ned, stänk (dash, Dot, fleck, spit, splash, spot, spray, sprinkle, sprinkling), sprut (splash, splatter), skur (downpour, hail, salvo, shower, volley), regna (rain), droppe (blob, dribble, drip, drop, droplet, globule, nip, spot). (various references)

Turkish

sağanak (down pour, downpour, drench, flurry, hail, heavy shower, rainfall, shower, soak, soaker, spate, squall, torrent, waterspout), sıçrayan şey (hopper), sıçrayan çamur, sıçratmak (dabble, dash, jump, slop, slosh, slosh on, slush, splash, splatter, splutter, squirt), sıçramak (bounce, bound, buck, capriole, cavort, gambol, hop, jerk, jink, jump, leap, leap up, skip, skitter, splash, splatter, splutter, spring, sputter, squirt, start up, take off, vault), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), kirletmek (bedaub, befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, foul, foul up, grime, make dirty, mess, pollute, rape, slur, smear, smirch, smutch, soil, stain, sully, tarnish, vitiate), çamur lekesi, çamur atmak (asperse, bespatter, calumniate, cast aspersions upon smb., fling dirt at smb., frame, frame up, malign, slander, sling ink, sling mud at, throw dirt at smb., traduce). (various references)

Ukrainian

розбризкуватися, оббризкувати (asperse, bedew, besprinkle, sparge, splash), бризкати (jet, splash, splutter, sprinkle), дощик (splatter). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự vung vãi bùn bắn tung, sự bắn tung, vết cứt bắn phải tiếng lộp bộp, vết bùn bắn phải. (various references)

respersit, respersos. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spatter": spatterdock, spatterdocks, spattered, spattering, spatters. (additional references)

Words ending with "spatter": bespatter. (additional references)

Words containing "spatter": bespattered, bespattering, bespatters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spatter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aspettare, slpatter, spartitura, spaten, spatterd, spattere, spattery, spette, spiter, Spiteri, sptter, sputtern, statter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: patters, tapster.

-1 letter: aptest, paster, paters, patter, prates, repast, stater, tapers, taster, taters, tetras, trapes, treats.

-2 letters: apers, apres, apter, asper, aster, pares, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, rapes, rates, reaps, septa, spare, spate, spear, sprat, stare, start, state, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tares, tarps, tarts, taste.

+1 letter: partlets, patterns, peartest, platters, prattles, pretaste, prostate, spatters, splatter, sprattle, tapestry, tapsters, transept, trapnest, upstater.

+2 letters: abruptest, aspartate, attempers, bespatter, operettas, paltriest, pastorate, patentors, patterers, poetaster, prattlers, pretasted, pretastes, pretreats, privatest, prostates, prostrate, saltpeter, spattered, spectator, splatters, sprattled, sprattles, tetrapods, therapist, transepts, trapezist, trapnests, triptanes, upstarted, upstaters.

+3 letters: apartments, aspartates, baptistery, bespatters, crepitates, deathtraps, extirpates, impetrates, pacesetter, pastorates, pediatrist, penetrants, penetrates, poetasters, postarrest, postmaster, pretasting, prostrated, prostrates, protestant, protonates, reattempts, repatterns, saltpeters, separatist, spattering, spectators, splattered, stepfather, stepparent, strathspey, streetlamp, striptease, superstate, taperstick, tapestried, tapestries, tetraspore, therapists, transeptal, trapezists, trapnested, tropotaxes, vaporettos, waterspout.