spattery
English
Etymology
Adjective
spattery (comparative more spattery, superlative most spattery)
- Accompanied or caused by spattering.
- 1837, Mary Boddington, Sketches in the Pyrenees, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Volume 1, Chapter 2, p. 27,[1]
- On a raw wintry morning, a watermill may talk of damp and rats, and other comfortless things; but on such a day as this is, its cool gushing sound and spattery playfulness are delicious both to ear and eye.
- 1920, Edith Ballinger Price, Us and the Bottle Man, New York: Century, Chapter 9, p. 107,[2]
- The rain went plop into the pools, and made a flattish, spattery sound on the rock.
- 2006, David Foster Wallace, “Federer Both Flesh and Not” in Both Flesh and Not, Boston: Little, Brown, 2012,
- And the spattery gale that has knocked over parking signs and everted umbrellas all morning suddenly quits an hour before match time […]
- 1837, Mary Boddington, Sketches in the Pyrenees, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Volume 1, Chapter 2, p. 27,[1]
- Covered with or in the form of spatters.
- 1874, Frederic B. Perkins, Scrope; or, The Lost Library, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Chapter , p. 256,[3]
- […] he traced upon the paper, slowly, awkwardly, but without stopping once, a tangle of heavy, shaken, spattery lines, in which could nevertheless be recognized the signature of “Tarbox Button.”
- 1981, Manly Wade Wellman, “Nobody Ever Goes There” in John the Balladeer, New York: Baen Books, p. 222,[4]
- From where they sat they could see a spattery shimmer of moonlight on the water […]
- 1874, Frederic B. Perkins, Scrope; or, The Lost Library, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Chapter , p. 256,[3]