spattery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Accompanied or caused by spattering.
Example Sentences
- "On a raw wintry morning, a watermill may talk of damp and rats, and other comfortless things; but on such a day as this is, its cool gushing sound and spattery playfulness are delicious both to ear and eye."
- "The rain went plop into the pools, and made a flattish, spattery sound on the rock."
- "And the spattery gale that has knocked over parking signs and everted umbrellas all morning suddenly quits an hour before match time […]"
- "[…] he traced upon the paper, slowly, awkwardly, but without stopping once, a tangle of heavy, shaken, spattery lines, in which could nevertheless be recognized the signature of “Tarbox Button.”"
- "From where they sat they could see a spattery shimmer of moonlight on the water […]"
Etymology
From spatter + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more spattery (comparative)
most spattery (superlative)