splattery
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[edit]splattery (comparative more splattery, superlative most splattery)
- Resembling or covered in splatters.
- 1896, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 11, in Tom Sawyer, Detective:
- […] his old green baize work-gown with a splattery white patch in the middle of the back […]
- Composed of liquid spray that causes splatters.
- 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131:
- When the all-father in eagle form had almost reached the vats, with Suttung immediately behind him, Odin blew some of the mead out of his behind, a splattery wet fart of foul=smelling mead right in Suttung's face, blinding the giant and throwing him off Odin's trail.