splatterdash

Example Sentences

• "Spluttersmash and splatterdash! In the shallow pools they splash, Like two wrestlers closing! Long they fight and twist and turn, But the race is over"
• "Gas will have its share of the business going during June next, and without making any splatterdash about supplying at low prices."
• "All the doubtful state forces swelled the anti-Seward splatterdash."
• "We landed and again possessed the isle in force[…]We found there was yet dispute of our ascendancy, five great canoes coming bow out[…]No soft garments now, not yet mere nakedness, but a splatterdash of color beyond any rainbow that ever was[…]"What is that?" queried a maiden huskily. "As I live, the strange things are bringing a doll-baby to fight us.""
• "The absurd splatterdash which the Mage painted while blindfolded had nothing of Thibetan architecture about it, but resembled a ruined castle on the Rhine."
• "In this same letter to Ballard, he [sc. Blackmore] refers to “that miserable book, the most absurd and hideous thing ever seen[…]Sprawling into prose my most highly finished rhythm—much of which is in strophe and antistrophe, as not a blessed soul has had the perception to discover[…]After sending me proofs in proper lines, according to my manuscript[…]I think this was a little cool. Without a word to me Messrs Burrows Brothers[…]broke it all up into splatterdash.”"