splotty
splotty adjective: covered with splots or splotches; splotchy.
Adjective (1)
splotty (comparative splottier, superlative splottiest)
- Covered with splots or splotches; splotchy.
- I look for jet contrails in the splotty snow sky.1976, Carolina Quarterly, volumes 28-29, page 76
- While a new play was preparing, it was his task to ensure fair copies were made from the author's foul papers, since no-one can use a splotty, scrawled and scratched-out manuscript, all warm and illegible from its creator's hand.2012, Philip Gooden, Death of Kings: No 2 - Issue 2
Adjective (2)
splotty (comparative splottier or more splotty, superlative splottiest or most splotty)
- Resembling a splat.
- The ice cream seemed to lift itself out of the cone and up into the air. It climbed in a great curve and then it dropped with a splotty plop on to the dusty pavement.2017, Mark Billen, Beware of the Neighbourhood Witch, page 21
- Reacting to the splotty sound, Myke Phoenix jumped up onto the roof, landing not far from where a big white blotch of web was wriggling.2019, Warren Bluhm, Myke Phoenix - The Complete Novelettes, page 561
Forms of splotty
| comparative | splottier |
|---|---|
| superlative | splottiest |
| comparative | more splotty |
| superlative | most splotty |
Origin of splotty
From Middle English splotty, equivalent to splot + -y. Compare splotchy.
Alteration of splat + -y.
Questions about splotty
- What does splotty mean?
- Splotty means covered with splots or splotches; splotchy.
- What part of speech is splotty?
- Splotty is an adjective.
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