spatter
verb
[ ˈspatə ]
• cover with drops or spots of something.
• "passing vehicles spattered his shoes and trousers with mud"
Similar:
splash,
bespatter,
splatter,
spray,
sprinkle,
spritz,
shower,
speck,
speckle,
fleck,
mottle,
blotch,
smear,
stain,
mark,
dirty,
soil,
daub,
cover,
splotch,
splodge,
slabber,
besprinkle,
bedabble,
spatter
noun
• a spray or splash of something.
• "she stood clear of the spatter of water that came off the steps"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘splutter while speaking’): frequentative, from a base shared by Dutch, Low German spatten ‘burst, spout’.
