splatter

An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

Noun

  1. An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
    • He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.
  2. A genre of gory horror.
    • splatter film; splatter movie
  3. Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.

Origin

Uncertain. Emerged 1780s.https://www.etymonline.com/word/splatter Possibly a blend of splash + spatter.

Forms

splatters

Derived

splatter-gun splatter platter

Verb

  1. To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.
    • The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.
  2. To cause (something) to splatter.
    • He splattered paint onto the wall.
  3. To spatter (something or somebody).
    • The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung! - 1983, Bill...
    • Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds. - 2012, Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise, page 100:

Forms

splatters splattering splattered

Derived

nonsplattering splatstick splatterdash splatterday splatterer splatterfest splatterproof splatterpunk splattersome splatterwork splattery unsplattered