spatter

Meanings

Verb

• To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
• To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
• To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
• To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
• To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
• To injure by aspersion; to defame.

Noun

• 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.
• A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
• A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.

Related

Similar words

• strew

Origin

• Probably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten -er. Related to spit.