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splatter

US/ˈsplætɚ/
verbB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,843 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: splattered, splatters, splattering

To splatter is to scatter drops of liquid noisily over a surface. Louder and messier than a spatter.

Paint, mud and cooking fat are the usual culprits, and something splattered across a wall has arrived with force. It takes with or across. The word has given horror films the term splatter movie, meaning one that dwells on blood, and that use is entirely established. Its family is worth having together, since spatter is finer, splash is bigger, and splatter sits noisily between them.

Definitions of splatter

  1. 1verbsplatterTo scatter liquid noisily and messily over something.B2

    “Fat splattered all over the hob.”

Where it comes from

unknown. Emerged 1780s.[https://www.etymonline.com/word/splatter] Possibly a splash and spatter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 32 of A Man Called Ove.

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splatter in the wild

  • Snuff is a 1976 splatter film directed by Michael Findlay and Horacio Fredriksson.

    Snuff (film)

  • A splatter film is a subgenre of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence.

    Splatter film

  • The term "splatter cinema" was coined by George A.

    Splatter film

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.