splatherv.
/ˈsplaðə/ dialect.
intransitive. To splash; to sprawl.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)]
aflasha1387
flouse1567
plash1596
splash1715
splather1877
splosh1930
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 134/2 Splather,..to splash water or mud.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester 333 A procumbent plant which spreads over the ground would be said to ‘splather about’.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Splather, to sprawl. ‘He had bu' just spokken th' word, an' o'er he went splatherin' i'th' middle o'th' bruk.’
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xiv. 118 The closed Experiment Farm, now profusely splathered with flora and fauna animate and inanimate.
Derivatives
ˈsplather n. (see quot. 1877).
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > an instance or the result of
dash1570
dashing1591
splasha1822
splosh1857
splather1877
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 235/1 Splather, (1) a splash. (2) Noisy talk.
1879 Dewsbre Olmenac in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 673/2 Matters hev gotten squared up efter a deeal o' conflab an splather.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 811/2 Hold your splathers! be silent!
ˈsplathering adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > disconnected
unjointed1588
disjointed1593
checkie-wise1603
rambling1632
loose1638
unconnexed1716
disconnected1777
snipped1806
dot and go one1818
spasmodic1832
spotty1843
snippety1864
rantipole1866
splathering1929
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. v. 188 She sends a long splathering telegram and never puts her address in it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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