splatty

splatty

English

Etymology

From splat +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -æti

Adjective

splatty (comparative more splatty, superlative most splatty)

  1. (informal) Tending to splatter; messy.
    • 2015, Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island, page 206:
      Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements. Goodness knows what those gulls eat, but it certainly keeps them regular.
    • 2014 January 17, Jeff Jensen, “Sherlock, season 3”, in Entertainment Weekly[1], number 1294, page 100:
      There's a story line involving goofy-geeky groupies of the master detective (Benedict Cumberbatch) and their outlandishly Mission: Impossible-esque theories about how Holmes might have survived his spectacularly splatty “demise.”