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splattery en · ADJ

Etymology

From splatter + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or covered in splatters.
   • […] his old green baize work-gown with a splattery white patch in the middle of the back […] 1896, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 11, in Tom Sawyer, Detective:
2. Composed of liquid spray that causes splatters.
   • When the all-father in eagle form had almost reached the vats, with Suttung immediately behind him, Odin blew some of the mead out of his behind, a splattery wet fart of foul=smelling mead right in Suttung's face, blinding the giant and throwing him off Odin's trail. 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131:

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