Definitions for spatters

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spatters spat·ter

Spelling: [spat-er]

IPA: /ˈspæt ər/

Spatters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 352 anagrams from letters in spatters (aeprsstt).

Definitions for spatters

noun

1. the act or the sound of spattering:
2. a splash or spot of something spattered.

verb (used with object)

1. to scatter or dash in small particles or drops:
2. to splash with something in small particles:
3. to sprinkle or spot with something that soils or stains.

verb (used without object)

1. to send out small particles or drops, as falling water:
2. to strike a surface in or as in a shower, as bullets.

Origin of spatters

1575-85; perhaps Dutch spatt(en) to splash + -er⁶; compare Dutch spatterig literally, spattery

Examples for spatters

The spatter of skirmish firing was added to the thunder of the guns on the hill.

At prisent they seem to be in no hurry to spatter us with their word-jelly.

It was irregular at the edges, looking in fact like a spatter of silver.

On the walls of the houses we began to see the spatter of shrapnel.

Take your pen, old boy, and show us whether you can spatter the ink or not.

His arid chuckle seemed to strike Hayden like the spatter of hail.

Among these was Mr. spatter, who introduced him to Mr. Varnish.

Neill leaped back in a spatter of bullets that rained round him.

High sides catch the spatter--you can shallow-fry in a few inches of oil in one of these.

He knew only that Delaney had run, leaving his revolver and a spatter of blood behind him.