spatter

English

Etymology

Related to spit (“saliva”).

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ætə(r)

Verb

spatter (third-person singular simple present spatters, present participle spattering, simple past and past participle spattered)

(transitive) To splash with small droplets.

When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
(transitive) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.

to spatter blood

(Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)
(transitive, figuratively) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

Translations

to splash with small droplets

Arabic: ترشيش‎‎, طرطشة‎‎
Chinese:
Mandarin: 濺上 (zh), 溅上 (zh) (jiànshàng)
Finnish: pirskottaa, pirskotella
French: asperger (fr)
German: bespritzen (de)
Japanese: はねかける (hanakakeru)

Korean: (액체방울 등을) 튀기다 ((aekchebang-ul deung-eul) twigida)
Maori: paratī, uwhiuwhi, ehuehu
Portuguese: salpicar (pt)
Quechua: ch'aqchuy
Russian: обры́згивать (ru) impf (obrýzgivatʹ), обры́згать (ru) pf (obrýzgatʹ)
Spanish: salpicar (es), rociar (es)

to distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around

Finnish: roiskia, roiskia ympäriinsä, roiskuttaa (fi)

to injure by aspersion, defame

Finnish: parjata (fi)

Anagrams

PERSTAT, Prattes, p'taters, partest, patters, perstat, tapster, trap set, trapset

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