bespatter
/bɪˈspatə
/verb [with object]
Splash drops of a liquid substance all over (an object): his elegant shoes and trousers were bespattered with mud...
- He coughed out blood and more blood bespattered us.
- Only in some hollow of a larger tree on the sheltered side may be seen a few scattered leaves of some close-clinging creeper, or the hardy leaves of the tataramoa, bespattered with mud.
- You were so bespattered with mud that I thought you were some old farmer.
Synonyms
splatter, spatter, splash, speck, fleck, mark, spot, muddy, dirty, soil, smear, stain, sully, bedaub, begrime, befoul, besmirch;
Scottish & Irish slabber
informal splotch, splodge, splosh
