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单词 spatter
释义 spat·ter
I. \ˈspad.ə(r), -atə-\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: akin to Frisian spatte, spatterje to spatter, splash, Middle Dutch spatten, Flemish spetteren
transitive verb
1. : to splash with a liquid or with any wet substance : soil by splashing with drops or small portions
 < spatter the floor with grease >
2. : to scatter by splashing : sprinkle around
 < spatter blood >
 < spatter mud on one's clothes >
3. : to cover with or as if with splashes or spots : spot
 < the bare floor spattered with moonlight — Amy Lowell >
 < green tweed spattered with white silk flecks — New Yorker >
 < mistakes and misrepresentations spattered throughout the whole article — Times Literary Supplement >
4. : to injure by aspersion : defame
 < as an advocate, he must praise the man whom, a year before, he had spattered with ignominy — J.A.Froude >
 < satire … has an awkward way of spattering its author — Listener >
intransitive verb
1. : to sputter as if ejecting something distasteful : splutter
2.
 a. : to jet or spurt forth in scattered drops
  < by hitting the ferrule of the brush against the opposite wrist and causing dots of color to spatter upon the setting — H.F.Helvenston >
  < spray from one of the hoses spattered over the longshoremen — Vernon Pizer >
 b. : to drop or fall with or as if with the sound of heavy drops of rain
  < earth damp and fragrant from the dew which spatters from the overhanging trees — Tom Marvel >
  < water-stream blows … and spatters into the basin with a light tinkling — Amy Lowell >
II. noun
(-s)
1.
 a. : the act or process of spattering or the state of being spattered : splashing
 b. : spatter dash 2
 c. : the noise of spattering
2.
 a. : a drop or splash spattered on something : a spot or stain due to spattering
  < clean mud spatters off clothing >
  < wipe grease spatters off the wall >
 b. : a small number or quantity : sprinkle
  < a spatter of rain >
  < a spatter of applause >
  < heavy artillery fire and a spatter of infantry raids — Current History >
  < a continual spatter of musketry fire — Kenneth Roberts >
3. West : ruddy duck
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