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verb (used with object)
1.
to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
2.
to splash with something in small particles: to spatter the ground with water.
3.
to sprinkle or spot with something that soils or stains.
verb (used without object)
4.
to send out small particles or drops, as falling water: rain spattering on a tin roof.
5.
to strike a surface in or as in a shower, as bullets.
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Spattered
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
noun
6.
the act or the sound of spattering: the spatter of rain on a roof.
7.
a splash or spot of something spattered.
Origin:
1575–85; perhaps < Dutch spatt(en) to splash + -er6; compare Dutch spatterig literally, spattery
1575–85; perhaps < Dutch spatt(en) to splash + -er6; compare Dutch spatterig literally, spattery
Related forms
spat·ter·ing·ly, adverb
un·spat·tered, adjective
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Word Origin & History
spatter
1576 (implied in spattering), possibly a frequentative verb from the stem of Du. or Low Ger. spatten "to spout, burst," of imitative origin.
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