splatch
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To mark with a splatch.
verb
To manipulate roughly or crudely.
Example Sentences
- "[I]t appear'd through the Microscope gray, like a great splatch of London dirt […]"
- "Stanton described Lincoln as "A long, lank creature from Illinois, wearing a dirty linen duster for a coat, on the back of which the perspiration had splatched wide stains that resembled a map of the continent.""
- "Where cows are headed up to the wall and are fed with turnips in winter, the place around them very soon gets splatched with earth off the roots;"
- "The female lays four or five eggs, of a dull white colour, splatched with brown and black, with a very hard, smooth shell."
- "Fine distinctions, however, are wasted on Sir William Harcourt. His text is, ' We are rich and growing yearly richer,' and the more broadly splatched the facts he marshals in support of his text the more striking the effect."
- "Once I had the wedge in, I had to raise the heavy hammer and let it fall with all the force I could, hoping thus to splatch off large pieces of rock."