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Spattering   /spˈætərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Spatter  v. t.  (past & past part. spattered; pres. part. spattering)  
1.
To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. "Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people."
2.
To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
3.
Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.


Spatter  v. i.  To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. "That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which,... tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after."





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"Spattering" Quotes from Famous Books



... had hoped, Jack and Wessner instantly plunged into the swale. A spattering of lead followed them. They crossed the swale, running low, with not even one backward glance, and entered the woods ...
— Freckles • Gene Stratton-Porter
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... rain spattering down violently. Flashes of lightning were nearly continuous and the thunder claps increased in intensity while the wind shook ...
— Sweetapple Cove • George van Schaick
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... waited a chance. The dynamite struck the deck in a compact package, bounded, and rolled into the port scupper. Van Asveld saw it and hesitated, then he and the girl ran aft for their lives. The Goat Man fired, but splintered the corner of the galley. The spattering of bullets from the Rattler increased, and the two on the rock crouched low for shelter and waited. Mauriri tried to see what was happening below, but Grief held ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London
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... to corner I discern other beacons, marshalling my way to a brighter scene. But this is a lonesome and dreary spot. The tall edifices bid gloomy defiance to the storm with their blinds all closed, even as a man winks when he faces a spattering gust. How loudly tinkles the collected rain down the tin spouts! The puffs of wind are boisterous, and seem to assail me from various quarters at once. I have often observed that this corner is a haunt and loitering-place for those winds which ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
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... becoming clothes had as yet no recognized place on the trail. The Gillespies were boldly and blithely bringing them, and unlike most innovators, romance came with them. Nobody had gone out of Independence with so confident and debonair an air. Now advancing through a spattering of leaf shadows and sunspots, they seemed to the young men to be issuing from the first pages of a story, and the watchers secretly hoped that they would go riding on into the heart of it with the white ...
— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner
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