spattery

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8

Definition of spattery

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Accompanied or caused by spattering.
    “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 […]”
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adj

  1. Accompanied or caused by spattering.
    “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 […]”
  2. Covered with or in the form of spatters.
    “[…] 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 […]”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From spatter + -y.

Anagrams of spattery

2 plays · some not in Scrabble

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