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   spatter

   /ˈspatə/

   verb

   • 1. cover with drops or spots of something: "passing vehicles spattered his shoes and trousers with mud"
   • ▪ scatter or splash (liquid, mud, etc.) over a surface: "he spatters grease all over the cooker"
   • ▪ fall so as to be scattered over an area: "she watched the raindrops spatter down"

   noun

   • 1. a spray or splash of something: "she stood clear of the spatter of water that came off the steps"
   • ▪ a sprinkling: "there was a spatter of freckles over her nose"
   • ▪ a short outburst of sound: "the sharp spatter of shots"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘splutter while speaking’): frequentative, from a base shared by Dutch, Low German spatten ‘burst, spout’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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   • P

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   • A

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   • T

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   • T

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   • E

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   • R

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