What does "spatter" mean?
Spatter: To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. Pope.
Additional senses
- 2.Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
- 3.To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after. Milton.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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