LekhoriLekhoriTo splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
[…] she seem’d to have woven the Rainbow into a loose Robe, which being so rarified that she might be seen through it, and also spatter’d with radiant Jewells in the forms of Starrs […]
To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
to spatter blood
A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
1763, Richard Bentley, Patriotism, a Mock-Heroic, London: M. Hinxman, Canto 5, pp. 65-66, As a rough Water-Dog, New-England’s Breed, Fresh plaister’d from some Pond with Mud and Weed, Round from his Fleece the dirty Puddle shakes Rejoicing in the Spatter that he makes:
A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
Probably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten (“to spout, burst”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Related to spit (“saliva”).
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There was what looked like a spatter of blood on one wall.
The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
As Henry lay awake that first night the hiss and spatter of the rain against his window seemed to have a personal grudge against him.