Slatters vs Spatters - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between slatters and spatters

is that slatters is (slatter) while spatters is (spatter).

(head)

(slatter)

(en verb)

To be careless, negligent, or awkward, especially with regard to dress and neatness.

To be wasteful.

(Ray)

(Webster 1913)

(head)

(spatter)

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(en verb)

To splash with small droplets.

When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.

To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.

to spatter blood

(Alexander Pope)

(figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

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