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splatty en · ADJ

Etymology

From splat + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Tending to splatter; messy.
   • There's a story line involving goofy-geeky groupies of the master detective (Benedict Cumberbatch) and their outlandishly Mission: Impossible-esque theories about how Holmes might have survived his spectacularly splatty “demise.” 2014 January 17, Jeff Jensen, “Sherlock, season 3”, in Entertainment Weekly, number 1294, page 100:
   • Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements. Goodness knows what those gulls eat, but it certainly keeps them regular. 2015, Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island, page 206:

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