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語源

Uncertain. Emerged 1780s.[1] Possibly a blend of splash +‎ spatter.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈsplætɚ/
• 韻: -ætə(ɹ)

名詞

splatter (countable and uncountable, plural splatters)

1. An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

   He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.

2. (uncountable, attributive, film) A genre of gory horror.

   splatter film; splatter movie

3. (uncountable, radio) Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.

派生語

動詞

splatter (third-person singular simple present splatters, present participle splattering, simple past and past participle splattered)

1. (intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

   The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.

2. (transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.

   He splattered paint onto the wall.

3. (transitive) To spatter (something or somebody).
   • 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 59:

     The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!

   • 2012, Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise, page 100:

     Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds.

派生語

アナグラム

• Platters, partlets, platters, prattles, sprattle