splatty
US/ˈsplæti/ [ˈsplæɾi]
splatty adjective: tending to splatter; messy.
Adjective
splatty (comparative more splatty, superlative most splatty)
- Tending to splatter; messy.
- 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
- 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
Proper noun capitalized: Splatty
Splatty
- Splatoon.
Forms of splatty
| comparative | more splatty |
|---|---|
| superlative | most splatty |
Origin of splatty
From splat + -y.
Clipping of Splatoon + -y.
Words that rhyme with splatty
Questions about splatty
- What does splatty mean?
- Splatty means tending to splatter; messy.
- What part of speech is splatty?
- Splatty can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce splatty?
- Splatty is pronounced /ˈsplæti/ [ˈsplæɾi] (US).
Words near splatty in the dictionary
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