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splattery

splattery adjective: resembling or covered in splatters.

Adjective

splattery (comparative more splattery, superlative most splattery)

  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

Forms of splattery

comparativemore splattery
superlativemost splattery

Origin of splattery

From splatter + -y.

Questions about splattery

What does splattery mean?
Splattery means resembling or covered in splatters.
What part of speech is splattery?
Splattery is an adjective.

Words near splattery in the dictionary

  1. splatterpunk
  2. splatterpunks
  3. splatters
  4. splattersome
  5. splatterwork
  6. splattery
  7. splatting
  8. splattings
  9. Splatts
  10. splatty
  11. Splawn

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