splottyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

splotty (comparative splottier, superlative splottiest)

1. (rare) Covered with splots or splotches; splotchy.
   • 1976, Carolina Quarterly, volumes 28-29, page 76:

     I look for jet contrails in the splotty snow sky.

   • 2012, Philip Gooden, Death of Kings: No 2 - Issue 2:

     While a new play was preparing, it was his task to ensure fair copies were made from the author's foul papers, since no-one can use a splotty, scrawled and scratched-out manuscript, all warm and illegible from its creator's hand.

語源 2

Alteration of splat +‎ -y.

形容詞

splotty (comparative splottier or more splotty, superlative splottiest or most splotty)

1. (rare) Resembling a splat.
   • 2017, Mark Billen, Beware of the Neighbourhood Witch, page 21:

     The ice cream seemed to lift itself out of the cone and up into the air. It climbed in a great curve and then it dropped with a splotty plop on to the dusty pavement.

   • 2019, Warren Bluhm, Myke Phoenix - The Complete Novelettes, page 561:

     Reacting to the splotty sound, Myke Phoenix jumped up onto the roof, landing not far from where a big white blotch of web was wriggling.