† splattern.¹

Etymology: Irregularly < spatule n. or spatula n.

Obsolete.

A spatula.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > spatula

spatulea1425

spatula1525

splatter1539

languet1611

spathula1658

1539 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 173 The surgeons..in whyte cotes, with their bendes of whyte & Grene bawdryke-wyse, & their splatters ouer the bende.

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 26^v Continuallye styrrynge it wyth a splatter vntyll it bee colde.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 13 Spatulaes or splatters..are most needfull instruments to spread vnguent, and emplasters withall.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. iv. 77 With your Splatter, spread it upon the place.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Spat,..a little Slice or Splatter, wherewith Surgeons and Apothecaries use to spread their plaisters and salves.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

splattern.²

Brit.

/ˈsplatə/, U.S.

/ˈsplædər/, Scottish English

/ˈsplatər/

Etymology: < splatter v.

Scottish and U.S.

1. A heavy or loud splash or spatter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > pattering or spattering

pit-a-pat1582

pit-a-pat-ationa1735

squatter1788

pattering1798

patter1822

splatter1827

pit-a-patting1844

pat1846

pitter-patter1863

spattering1866

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splatter

clash1817

splatter1827

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 56 Chariots and horse-hoofs round did scatter Scamander's sand wi' spairge and splatter.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xiii. 122 Then came a splatter of musketry up the passage.

2. An irregular assemblage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection

rabblea1398

hotchpotc1405

hotchpotchc1410

mishmashc1475

gaggle?1478

chaos?1550

humble-jumble1550

huddle1587

wilderness1594

lurry1607

hatterc1626

farragoa1637

bumble1648

higgledy-piggledy1659

jumble1661

clutter1666

hugger-mugger1674

litter1730

imbroglio1753

confusion1791

cludder1801

hurrah's nest1829

hotter1834

welter1857

muddle1863

splatter1895

shamble1926

1895 Advance (Chicago) 8 Aug. 192/2 [Boston] is a splatter of houses with lanes among them.

Draft additions 1993

A spot or patch of colour, etc. splattered on to a surface, a spatter; = splash n.¹ 5a. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [noun] > splash of colour

dash1713

splash1832

stab1894

splatter1969

1969 Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 12/6 Other leather is speckly and ombre with tiny splatters of black on grey.

1979 A. Boyle Climate of Treason ii. 43 The British Empire was held to be a solid and impressive entity, a splatter of red across the earth's surface, at least in the school atlases.

1986 P. D. James Taste for Death i. xi. 86 The splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove,..the general air of discomfort, uncaring, negligence, dirt.

Draft additions October 2001

A subgenre of cinema (principally comprising horror films) characterized by the frequent and graphic depiction of gory violence and gruesome death; the sensationalist violence featured in such films. In extended use: any similar genre of computer games, horror fiction, etc. (cf. later splatterpunk n.). Frequently attributive.

ΚΠ

1980 Cinefantastique Spring 78/2 As a director who has taken cinematic gore or in his own words ‘splatter cinema’ to the limits, is there anything that even he [sc. George Romero] is scared of showing?

1986 G. Wright Horrorshows xi. 240/1 Most splatter fans don't take these knee-jerk films seriously.

1990 Times 22 Nov. 19/2 Laymon is well known in splatter circles as an accomplished schlock writer of pulp nasties.

1991 New Yorker 9 Sept. 78/1 ‘Barton Fink’ is just a fancy metaphysical splatter movie.

1998 Time 19 Jan. 16/1 Given my penchant for computer-based shoot-'em-ups, simulators and splatter games of any kind, how long would it be before I graduated to the hard stuff?

2000 S. King On Writing 199 The blood in Carrie seemed more than just splatter to me.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

splatterv.

Etymology: Imitative.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsplatter.

Chiefly dialect and U.S.

1. intransitive. To splash continuously or noisily:

a. Of persons, etc., in water or mud.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] > continuously or noisily

splatter1787

1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 App. Chron. 324/2 We..were, God knows how, but as merry as grigs, to think how we should splatter in the water.

1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 771 How engagingly delicate the virgin splattering along,..draggle-tailed and with left leg bared to the knee-pan!

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 277 Splattering, splashing about in water so as to make a noise.

1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xii. 85 A good many Craufords were already splattering like wounded waterfowl in the moss.

b. Of water or other liquid.

ΚΠ

1884 Kendal Mercury & Times 26 Sept. 2/6 The water comes gurgling, then splattering down betwixt great masses of rock.

1897 Outing 30 381/1 To one side a stream tumbled over it the whole ten feet, and splattered into a little pool below.

c. Of objects.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] > continuously or noisily > of objects

splatter1931

1931 W. G. Carr By Guess & by God 91 A salvo of shells splattered around the periscope.

1976 ‘E. McBain’ Guns (1977) iii. 66 It had certainly been traumatic pulling the trigger of the .38 and watching the back of that cop's head come off and splatter onto the Seagrim's poster.

1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 4/1 His deep brown feces splatter over Queen Anne's Lace and the waving sedge Of the pond.

a. transitive. To spatter or sputter (something); to cause to spatter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > particles or sparks

spattera1586

sparkle1590

spark1596

sputter1598

spirtle1612

spatter1721

splatter1786

splutter1835

spurtle1858

1786 R. Burns Poems 217 Tho' dull prose-folk latin splatter In logic tulzie.

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 708 Baser Helot still who ate up that loathsome lie, and splattered it out again!

1897 Outing 30 132/2 It was a grateful summer shower that splattered the dust on the road.

b. To beat or batter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person

to-beatc893

threshOE

bustc1225

to lay on or upon?c1225

berrya1250

to-bunea1250

touchc1330

arrayc1380

byfrapc1380

boxc1390

swinga1400

forbeatc1420

peal?a1425

routa1425

noddlea1450

forslinger1481

wipe1523

trima1529

baste1533

waulk1533

slip1535

peppera1550

bethwack1555

kembc1566

to beat (a person) black and blue1568

beswinge1568

paik1568

trounce1568

canvass1573

swaddle?1577

bebaste1582

besoop1589

bumfeage1589

dry-beat1589

feague1589

lamback1589

clapperclaw1590

thrash1593

belam1595

lam1595

beswaddle1598

bumfeagle1598

belabour1600

tew1600

flesh-baste1611

dust1612

feeze1612

mill1612

verberate1614

bethumpa1616

rebuke1619

bemaul1620

tabor1624

maula1627

batterfang1630

dry-baste1630

lambaste1637

thunder-thump1637

cullis1639

dry-banga1640

nuddle1640

sauce1651

feak1652

cotton1654

fustigate1656

brush1665

squab1668

raddle1677

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slam1691

bebump1694

to give (a person) his load1694

fag1699

towel1705

to kick a person's butt1741

fum1790

devel1807

bray1808

to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813

mug1818

to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821

welt1823

hidea1825

slate1825

targe1825

wallop1825

pounce1827

to lay into1838

flake1841

muzzle1843

paste1846

looder1850

frail1851

snake1859

fettle1863

to do over1866

jacket1875

to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877

to take apart1880

splatter1881

to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884

to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886

to do up1887

to —— (the) hell out of1887

to beat — bells out of a person1890

soak1892

to punch out1893

stoush1893

to work over1903

to beat up1907

to punch up1907

cream1929

shellac1930

to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931

duff1943

clobber1944

to fill in1948

to bash up1954

to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976

to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983

beast1990

becurry-

fan-

1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 31 If it wasn't for that oald grey heid o' thine Ah wud splatter thee.

1897 W. Beatty Secretar xiv. 110 I would have splattered his harns on the causey.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 198 Recommendations by boys in East and South-East London: ‘Bash him up.’ ‘Beat him up.’.. ‘Splatter him.’

3. To bespatter or splash with something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > bespatter

spirtle?1606

spattle1611

sprent1616

spurtle1633

bespatter1674

splash1699

spatter1718

sparge1786

splutter1835

slob1851

splatter1888

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > splash or splatter

slotterc1340

again-sprengea1382

resperse1482

besparkle1485

besperple1529

dash1530

bespattle1551

slobber1554

bespurt1579

besquatter1611

besquirt1611

bespurtle1616

bespatter1674

splash1699

spatter1718

spark1806

spluttera1869

splatter1888

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases 152.

1894 R. H. Davis Eng. Cousins 83 Their wives splattered with the mud of the Mile-End Road.

Compounds

splatter-work n. (see quot. 1897).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > others by medium or technique

velvet-painting1809

Poona work1816

Poona painting1817

Poona1821

lithochromy1837

rock painting1852

mural painting1879

splatter-work1897

sand-painting1902

scroll painting1911

dot painting1932

texturology1959

1897 H. W. Singer & W. Strang Etching 124 Splatter work, very customary in poster designing and other large lithographic pictures, is made by filling a short bristle brush with lithographic ink, and drawing a knife or other edge across.

Derivatives

ˈsplattered adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective]

splattered1809

splashed1837

the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective] > splashed with colour

dashed1646

splatchy1699

splashed1765

splattered1809

1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 455 Through this deep swamp, in splatter'd plight..we labour'd on.

1882 Philadelphia Evening Star 2 May There is a masculine run upon fancifully splattered shirtings.

1979 E. Newman Sunday Punch i. 1 The prize being, for some of the fighters, fame and fortune, often accompanied by splattered noses.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1539

n.²1827

v.1786

单词	splatter
释义	† splattern.¹ Etymology: Irregularly < spatule n. or spatula n. Obsolete. A spatula. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > spatula spatulea1425 spatula1525 splatter1539 languet1611 spathula1658 1539 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 173 The surgeons..in whyte cotes, with their bendes of whyte & Grene bawdryke-wyse, & their splatters ouer the bende. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 26^v Continuallye styrrynge it wyth a splatter vntyll it bee colde. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 13 Spatulaes or splatters..are most needfull instruments to spread vnguent, and emplasters withall. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. iv. 77 With your Splatter, spread it upon the place. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Spat,..a little Slice or Splatter, wherewith Surgeons and Apothecaries use to spread their plaisters and salves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). splattern.² Brit. /ˈsplatə/, U.S. /ˈsplædər/, Scottish English /ˈsplatər/ Etymology: < splatter v. Scottish and U.S. 1. A heavy or loud splash or spatter. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > pattering or spattering pit-a-pat1582 pit-a-pat-ationa1735 squatter1788 pattering1798 patter1822 splatter1827 pit-a-patting1844 pat1846 pitter-patter1863 spattering1866 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splatter clash1817 splatter1827 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 56 Chariots and horse-hoofs round did scatter Scamander's sand wi' spairge and splatter. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xiii. 122 Then came a splatter of musketry up the passage. 2. An irregular assemblage. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection rabblea1398 hotchpotc1405 hotchpotchc1410 mishmashc1475 gaggle?1478 chaos?1550 humble-jumble1550 huddle1587 wilderness1594 lurry1607 hatterc1626 farragoa1637 bumble1648 higgledy-piggledy1659 jumble1661 clutter1666 hugger-mugger1674 litter1730 imbroglio1753 confusion1791 cludder1801 hurrah's nest1829 hotter1834 welter1857 muddle1863 splatter1895 shamble1926 1895 Advance (Chicago) 8 Aug. 192/2 [Boston] is a splatter of houses with lanes among them. Draft additions 1993 A spot or patch of colour, etc. splattered on to a surface, a spatter; = splash n.¹ 5a. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [noun] > splash of colour dash1713 splash1832 stab1894 splatter1969 1969 Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 12/6 Other leather is speckly and ombre with tiny splatters of black on grey. 1979 A. Boyle Climate of Treason ii. 43 The British Empire was held to be a solid and impressive entity, a splatter of red across the earth's surface, at least in the school atlases. 1986 P. D. James Taste for Death i. xi. 86 The splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove,..the general air of discomfort, uncaring, negligence, dirt. Draft additions October 2001 A subgenre of cinema (principally comprising horror films) characterized by the frequent and graphic depiction of gory violence and gruesome death; the sensationalist violence featured in such films. In extended use: any similar genre of computer games, horror fiction, etc. (cf. later splatterpunk n.). Frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1980 Cinefantastique Spring 78/2 As a director who has taken cinematic gore or in his own words ‘splatter cinema’ to the limits, is there anything that even he [sc. George Romero] is scared of showing? 1986 G. Wright Horrorshows xi. 240/1 Most splatter fans don't take these knee-jerk films seriously. 1990 Times 22 Nov. 19/2 Laymon is well known in splatter circles as an accomplished schlock writer of pulp nasties. 1991 New Yorker 9 Sept. 78/1 ‘Barton Fink’ is just a fancy metaphysical splatter movie. 1998 Time 19 Jan. 16/1 Given my penchant for computer-based shoot-'em-ups, simulators and splatter games of any kind, how long would it be before I graduated to the hard stuff? 2000 S. King On Writing 199 The blood in Carrie seemed more than just splatter to me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). splatterv. Etymology: Imitative.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsplatter. Chiefly dialect and U.S. 1. intransitive. To splash continuously or noisily: a. Of persons, etc., in water or mud. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] > continuously or noisily splatter1787 1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 App. Chron. 324/2 We..were, God knows how, but as merry as grigs, to think how we should splatter in the water. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 771 How engagingly delicate the virgin splattering along,..draggle-tailed and with left leg bared to the knee-pan! 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 277 Splattering, splashing about in water so as to make a noise. 1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xii. 85 A good many Craufords were already splattering like wounded waterfowl in the moss. b. Of water or other liquid. ΚΠ 1884 Kendal Mercury & Times 26 Sept. 2/6 The water comes gurgling, then splattering down betwixt great masses of rock. 1897 Outing 30 381/1 To one side a stream tumbled over it the whole ten feet, and splattered into a little pool below. c. Of objects. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] > continuously or noisily > of objects splatter1931 1931 W. G. Carr By Guess & by God 91 A salvo of shells splattered around the periscope. 1976 ‘E. McBain’ Guns (1977) iii. 66 It had certainly been traumatic pulling the trigger of the .38 and watching the back of that cop's head come off and splatter onto the Seagrim's poster. 1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 4/1 His deep brown feces splatter over Queen Anne's Lace and the waving sedge Of the pond. 2. a. transitive. To spatter or sputter (something); to cause to spatter. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > particles or sparks spattera1586 sparkle1590 spark1596 sputter1598 spirtle1612 spatter1721 splatter1786 splutter1835 spurtle1858 1786 R. Burns Poems 217 Tho' dull prose-folk latin splatter In logic tulzie. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 708 Baser Helot still who ate up that loathsome lie, and splattered it out again! 1897 Outing 30 132/2 It was a grateful summer shower that splattered the dust on the road. b. To beat or batter. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 31 If it wasn't for that oald grey heid o' thine Ah wud splatter thee. 1897 W. Beatty Secretar xiv. 110 I would have splattered his harns on the causey. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 198 Recommendations by boys in East and South-East London: ‘Bash him up.’ ‘Beat him up.’.. ‘Splatter him.’ 3. To bespatter or splash with something. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > bespatter spirtle?1606 spattle1611 sprent1616 spurtle1633 bespatter1674 splash1699 spatter1718 sparge1786 splutter1835 slob1851 splatter1888 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > splash or splatter slotterc1340 again-sprengea1382 resperse1482 besparkle1485 besperple1529 dash1530 bespattle1551 slobber1554 bespurt1579 besquatter1611 besquirt1611 bespurtle1616 bespatter1674 splash1699 spatter1718 spark1806 spluttera1869 splatter1888 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases 152. 1894 R. H. Davis Eng. Cousins 83 Their wives splattered with the mud of the Mile-End Road. Compounds splatter-work n. (see quot. 1897). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > others by medium or technique velvet-painting1809 Poona work1816 Poona painting1817 Poona1821 lithochromy1837 rock painting1852 mural painting1879 splatter-work1897 sand-painting1902 scroll painting1911 dot painting1932 texturology1959 1897 H. W. Singer & W. Strang Etching 124 Splatter work, very customary in poster designing and other large lithographic pictures, is made by filling a short bristle brush with lithographic ink, and drawing a knife or other edge across. Derivatives ˈsplattered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] splattered1809 splashed1837 the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective] > splashed with colour dashed1646 splatchy1699 splashed1765 splattered1809 1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 455 Through this deep swamp, in splatter'd plight..we labour'd on. 1882 Philadelphia Evening Star 2 May There is a masculine run upon fancifully splattered shirtings. 1979 E. Newman Sunday Punch i. 1 The prize being, for some of the fighters, fame and fortune, often accompanied by splattered noses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1539n.²1827v.1786
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† splattern.1