Splatch

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A blot or splash..

Definitions by Sense

1. A blot or splash.
2. To mark with a splatch.
3. To manipulate roughly or crudely.
4. To move in a manner that causes splashing or spreading of material.

Example Sentences

[I]t appear'd through the Microscope gray, like a great splatch of London dirt […]

Stanton described Lincoln as "A long, lank creature from Illinois, wearing a dirty linen duster for a coat, on the back of which the perspiration had splatched wide stains that resembled a map of the continent."

Where cows are headed up to the wall and are fed with turnips in winter, the place around them very soon gets splatched with earth off the roots;

The female lays four or five eggs, of a dull white colour, splatched with brown and black, with a very hard, smooth shell.

Fine distinctions, however, are wasted on Sir William Harcourt. His text is, ' We are rich and growing yearly richer,' and the more broadly splatched the facts he marshals in support of his text the more striking the effect.

Once I had the wedge in, I had to raise the heavy hammer and let it fall with all the force I could, hoping thus to splatch off large pieces of rock.

...one of the placards said a mouse and a lizard were accidentally wrapped in with a mummy, one was found that held the leg bones of a bird, and often one "whole" mummy was actually chicanerously splatched together from several dismembered corpses, grab-bag toe-bones and pottery bitlets bridging any unevenness.

We splatched down into the river and across it, getting quite wet, while I swore quietly and monotonously.

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• splatches
• splatching
• splatched

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