spatter

Etymology
Probably from or. Related to.

Verb

 * 1)  To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
 * 2)  To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
 * 3) * 1955, and Patrick Bowles (translators),  by Samuel Beckett, in Three Novels, London: Calder, 1994, p.128,
 * The roof’s serrated ridge, the single chimney-stack with its four flues, stood out faintly against the sky spattered with a few dim stars.
 * 1)  To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
 * 2)  To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
 * 3)  To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
 * 4)  To injure by aspersion; to defame.
 * 5) * 1647,, “A Genethliacon to the Infant Muse of his dearest Friend” in Poems, London: J. Rothwell,
 * Let envy spatter what it can,
 * This Embryon will prove a man.
 * 1) * 1728,, , Dublin: George Risk et al., Act II, Scene 13, “Good-morrow, Gossip Joan,” p.42,
 * Why how now, Madam Flirt?
 * If you thus must chatter;
 * And are for flinging Dirt,
 * Let’s try who best can spatter;
 * 1) * 1770,, “To a Friend” in Analects in Verse and Prose, London: P. Shatwell et al., Volume 2, p.171,
 * I Wrote a letter long ago,
 * But did not like it, you must know,
 * So rather chose to take my time,
 * And write my own defence in rhime,
 * Though not in your be-crabbed stile,
 * To spatter, threaten, and revile;
 * 1)  To injure by aspersion; to defame.
 * 2) * 1647,, “A Genethliacon to the Infant Muse of his dearest Friend” in Poems, London: J. Rothwell,
 * Let envy spatter what it can,
 * This Embryon will prove a man.
 * 1) * 1728,, , Dublin: George Risk et al., Act II, Scene 13, “Good-morrow, Gossip Joan,” p.42,
 * Why how now, Madam Flirt?
 * If you thus must chatter;
 * And are for flinging Dirt,
 * Let’s try who best can spatter;
 * 1) * 1770,, “To a Friend” in Analects in Verse and Prose, London: P. Shatwell et al., Volume 2, p.171,
 * I Wrote a letter long ago,
 * But did not like it, you must know,
 * So rather chose to take my time,
 * And write my own defence in rhime,
 * Though not in your be-crabbed stile,
 * To spatter, threaten, and revile;
 * So rather chose to take my time,
 * And write my own defence in rhime,
 * Though not in your be-crabbed stile,
 * To spatter, threaten, and revile;

Translations

 * Arabic: ترشيش, طرطشة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cebuano: pisikpisik
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: surŝprucigi
 * Finnish: pirskottaa, pirskotella
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese: はねかける
 * Korean: (액체방울 등을) 튀기다
 * Maori: paratī, uwhiuwhi, ehuehu
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ch'aqchuy
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, roiskia ympäriinsä,
 * German: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:

Noun

 * 1) A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
 * 2) * 1763,, Patriotism, a Mock-Heroic, London: M. Hinxman, Canto 5, pp.65-66,
 * As a rough Water-Dog, New-England’s Breed,
 * Fresh plaister’d from some Pond with Mud and Weed,
 * Round from his Fleece the dirty Puddle shakes
 * Rejoicing in the Spatter that he makes:—
 * 1) A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
 * There was what looked like a spatter of blood on one wall.
 * 1) The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
 * 2)  A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
 * 3)  A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
 * 4) * 1988,, , New York: Viking, Part 2, “12August,” p.270,
 * The attendant had a droopy lower lip, a rust-tone complexion with a spatter of freckles across the cheekbones
 * 1)  A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
 * 2)  A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
 * 3) * 1988,, , New York: Viking, Part 2, “12August,” p.270,
 * The attendant had a droopy lower lip, a rust-tone complexion with a spatter of freckles across the cheekbones
 * 1)  A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
 * 2) * 1988,, , New York: Viking, Part 2, “12August,” p.270,
 * The attendant had a droopy lower lip, a rust-tone complexion with a spatter of freckles across the cheekbones
 * 1) * 1988,, , New York: Viking, Part 2, “12August,” p.270,
 * The attendant had a droopy lower lip, a rust-tone complexion with a spatter of freckles across the cheekbones

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * German:, , Niederprasseln,


 * German:, Dreckspritzer, Dreckfleck, Spritzfleck


 * Bulgarian: барабанене
 * German:, Prasseln
 * Swedish:, regnsmatter