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Slatter vs Splatter - What's the difference?

slatter | splatter |

As verbs the difference between slatter and splatter

is that slatter is to be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness while splatter is to splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

As a noun splatter is

an uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

slatter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness.
  • To be wasteful.
  • (Ray)
    (Webster 1913)

    splatter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
  • He had a hard time cleaning up the paint splatters on the carpet.
  • (attributive) A genre of gory horror.
  • splatter''' film; '''splatter movie

    Verb

  • To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.
  • The drink splattered all over me, the table, and the floor when I knocked it over.
  • To cause (something) to splatter.
  • He splattered paint onto the wall.
  • To spatter (something or somebody).
  • * 2012 , Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise (page 100)
  • Her wet hands splattered him with suds.