Spatter — Defs

01 v. t. To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatt…

imp. & p. p. Spattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Spattering

1.
To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.
“Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people.” — Burke.
2.
To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
3.
Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

02 v. i. To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.

1.
To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
“That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after.” — Milton.