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▪ I. † ˈsplatter, n.1 Obs.
[Irreg. f. spatule or spatula.]
A spatula.
1539in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. 173 The surgeons..in whyte cotes, with their bendes of whyte & Grene bawdryke-wyse, & their splatters ouer the bende. 1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 27 Continuallye styrrynge it wyth a splatter vntyll it bee colde. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 9 Spatulaes or splatters..are most needful instruments to spread unguent, and emplaisters withal. 1639T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 77 With your splatter spread it upon the place. 1656Blount Glossogr. (1660), Spat,..a little slice or Splatter, wherewith Surgeons and Apothecaries use to spread their plaisters and salves.
▪ II. ˈsplatter, n.2 Sc. and U.S.
[f. splatter v.]
1. A heavy or loud splash or spatter.
1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 56 Chariots and horse-hoofs round did scatter Scamander's sand wi' spairge and splatter. 1894Crockett Raiders xiii. (ed. 3) 122 Then came a splatter of musketry up the passage.
2. An irregular assemblage.
1895Advance (Chicago) 8 Aug. 192/2 [Boston] is a splatter of houses with lanes among them.
Restrict labels ‘Sc. and U.S.’ to sense 1. [2.] For def. read: A spot or patch of colour, etc. splattered on to a surface, a spatter; = splash n. 5 a. Also fig. (Later examples.)
1969Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 12/6 Other leather is speckly and ombre with tiny splatters of black on grey. 1979A. Boyle Climate of Treason ii. 43 The British Empire was held to be a solid and impressive entity, a splatter of red across the earth's surface, at least in the school atlases. 1986P. D. James Taste for Death i. xi. 86 The splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove,..the general air of discomfort, uncaring, negligence, dirt.
▸ A subgenre of cinema (principally comprising horror films) characterized by the frequent and graphic depiction of gory violence and gruesome death; the sensationalist violence featured in such films. In extended use: any similar genre of computer games, horror fiction, etc. (cf. later splatterpunk n.). Freq. attrib.
1980Cinefantastique Spring 78/2 As a director who has taken cinematic gore or in his own words ‘splatter cinema’ to the limits, is there anything that even he [sc. George Romero] is scared of showing? 1986G. Wright Horrorshows xi. 240/1 Most splatter fans don't take these knee-jerk films seriously. 1990Times 22 Nov. 19/2 Laymon is well known in splatter circles as an accomplished schlock writer of pulp nasties. 1991New Yorker 9 Sept. 78/1 ‘Barton Fink’ is just a fancy metaphysical splatter movie. 1998Time 19 Jan. 16/1 Given my penchant for computer-based shoot-'em-ups, simulators and splatter games of any kind, how long would it be before I graduated to the hard stuff? 2000S. King On Writing 199 The blood in Carrie seemed more than just splatter to me.
▪ III. ˈsplatter, v. Chiefly dial. and U.S.
[Imitative.]
1. intr. To splash continuously or noisily:
a. Of persons, etc., in water or mud.
1784–5Ann. Reg. 324/2 We..were, God knows how, but as merry as grigs, to think how we should splatter in the water. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 239 How engagingly delicate the virgin splattering along,..draggle⁓tailed and with left leg bared to the knee-pan! 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Splattering, splashing about in water so as to make a noise. 1896Crockett Grey Man xii. 85 A good many Craufords were already splattering like wounded waterfowl in the moss.
b. Of water or other liquid.
1884Kendal Mercury & Times 26 Sept. 2/6 The water comes gurgling, then splattering down betwixt great masses of rock. 1897Outing XXX. 381/1 To one side a stream tumbled over it the whole ten feet, and splattered into a little pool below.
c. Of objects.
1931W. G. Carr By Guess & by God 91 A salvo of shells splattered around the periscope. 1976‘E. McBain’ Guns (1977) iii. 66 It had certainly been traumatic pulling the trigger of the .38 and watching the back of that cop's head come off and splatter onto the Seagrim's poster. 1978Amer. Poetry Rev. July/Aug. 4/1 His deep brown feces splatter over Queen Anne's Lace and the waving sedge Of the pond.
2. a. trans. To spatter or sputter (something); to cause to spatter.
1785Burns To W. Simpson Postscr. xiii, Tho' dull prose⁓folk latin splatter In logic tulzie. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 708 Baser Helot still who ate up that loathsome lie, and splattered it out again! 1897Outing XXX. 132/2 It was a grateful summer shower that splattered the dust on the road.
b. To beat or batter.
1881J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh through Three Wardles 31 If it wasn't for that oald grey heid o' thine Ah wud splatter thee. 1897W. Beatty Secretar xiv. 110, I would have splattered his harns on the causey. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 198 Recommendations by boys in East and South-East London: ‘Bash him up.’ ‘Beat him up.’.. ‘Splatter him.’
3. To bespatter or splash with something.
1888in Berkshire Gloss. 152. 1894 R. H. Davis Eng. Cousins 83 Their wives splattered with the mud of the Mile-End Road.
4. Comb. in splatter-work (see quot.).
1897Singer & Strang Etching, Engraving, etc. 124 Splatter work, very customary in poster designing and other large lithographic pictures, is made by filling a short bristle brush with lithographic ink, and drawing a knife or other edge across.
Hence ˈsplattered ppl. a.
1805A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 145 Through this deep swamp in splattered plight..we laboured on. 1882Philadelphia Even. Star 2 May, There is a masculine run upon fancifully splattered shirtings. 1979E. Newman Sunday Punch i. 1 The prize being, for some of the fighters, fame and fortune, often accompanied by splattered noses. |