splatterdash

An uproar.

Spluttersmash and splatterdash! In the shallow pools they splash, Like two wrestlers closing! Long they fight and twist and turn, But the race is over

Gas will have its share of the business going during June next, and without making any splatterdash about supplying at low prices.

A work (of art, literature, etc.) that gives the appearance of having been created in a haphazard, chaotic manner.

We landed and again possessed the isle in force[…]We found there was yet dispute of our ascendancy, five great canoes coming bow out[…]No soft garments now, not yet mere nakedness, but a splatterdash of color beyond any rainbow that ever was[…]"What is that?" queried a maiden huskily. "As I live, the strange things are bringing a doll-baby to fight us."

The absurd splatterdash which the Mage painted while blindfolded had nothing of Thibetan architecture about it, but resembled a ruined castle on the Rhine.

A spangle; a sparkly decoration.

When a member of the Governor's Footguards of Connecticut was parading with the company, his son stood at the gate with his mother, and as they flashed by in their splatterdash finery, he said: "Oh, ma, ain't they grand; and see, everybody is out of step but father."

The program is a 28-page booklet printed on a cream-colored paper with gold splatterdash, and with a French-fold cover of blue and gold.

Alternative form of spatterdash.

At least two coats of impermeable render (suitable for plinth work) will be necessary on splatterdash and a galvanised background, additionally reinforced if necessary.

In addition, the function of a splatterdash coat, which allows the rendering system to adhere to the fiber cement plate, is fulfilled by coarse sand spread over the surface after having been first coated with an epoxy film.

Spatterdashes.

He wore a black coat, rather worn than old, which hung in tatters, a very fine but dirty shirt, frayed ruffles; a pair of splatterdashes so large that he could have put both legs into either of them, and, to secure himself from the snow, a little hat, only fit to be carried under his arm.

Here Gabriele was awaiting the arrival of her lover, and hastening to welcome him the moment he alighted from his steed, stood by his side, while the pages removed his sword, spurs, and splatterdashes.

To apply a splatterdash coat.

Uncle Samuel's house was an old-fashioned one of rough stone, "splatterdashed" with fine pebbles on the outside.

What a cozy little breakfast room — and the wall is so artistically splatterdashed.

To affix splatterdashes to.

"I could splatterdash it for you," she said. "We used to wear daub-stick cottons when I was a girl, and we thought them pretty fine."

To splash violently; to splatter with water and/or mud.

How he found himself stepping up when he was told to step down, down when he was told to step up; how he passed through a long box against a cold sponge splatterdashed in his face; how he opened his astonished eyes to see the knife of the guillotine descending on his innocent neck; how he was tossed up and down in the cruel blanket, until brains and bowels were both "discombobulated," and he felt more than ever like a "cat in a strange garret."

“Dat frisky li'l nigger suah will be splatterdashed ef he fall offen dat mule's back !” And indeed it did look bad for the small colored boy.