Noun
An uproar.
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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.
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All the doubtful state forces swelled the anti-Seward splatterdash.
A work (of art, literature, etc.) that gives the appearance of having been created in a haphazard, chaotic manner.
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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.
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In this same letter to Ballard, he [sc. Blackmore] refers to “that miserable book, the most absurd and hideous thing ever seen[…]Sprawling into prose my most highly finished rhythm—much of which is in strophe and antistrophe, as not a blessed soul has had the perception to discover[…]After sending me proofs in proper lines, according to my manuscript[…]I think this was a little cool. Without a word to me Messrs Burrows Brothers[…]broke it all up into splatterdash.”
The lecturers are expert on lecturing on the subject, but they offer the splatterdash method of disseminating information with no point of view of their own.
A spangle; a sparkly decoration.
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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.
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one of the employees of Thomas Webb of Stourbridge, a firm that had been making iridescent glass since 1878, took out a patent for “vasa Murrhina,” a type of spangle or splatterdash glass with a transparent body which was embedded with flakes of mica.
Spatterdashes.
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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.
Sometimes he also wore splatterdashes, especially if he was on a horse. Splatterdashes were loose leggings that came up to his thigh.
And, as all the really big spat people will tell you, the splatterdash should be as individual to a fellow as his shoe.
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Sarah Alice dressed in borrowed rocket, splatterdash, and boots, and followed her brothers through the smoke and dust into the woods.
A warrior.
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They also painted their faces, and, according to Wood, imprinted figures with a searing iron upon their bodies; perhaps, as he suggests, "to blazon their antique Gentilitie," for, he says, "a sagamore with a Humberd in his eare for a pendant, a black hawke on his occiput for his plume, Mowhackees for his gold chaine, good store of Wampmpeage begirting his loynes, his bow in his hand, his quiver at his bac, with six naked Indian splatterdashes at his heeles for his guard, thinkes himself little inferior to the great Cham; hee will not stick to say, hee is all one with King Charles."
Alas for the splatterdashes! The unmanageable rebels suddenly seemed to be everywhere at once.
Verb
To apply a splatterdash coat.
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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.
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Many like to splatterdash the floor of a bed or kitchen, and the process is simple to do.
Interior walls are plastered, those subject to the most wear being splatterdashed.
To affix splatterdashes to.
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"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.
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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.
He was turning around and splashing and splatterdashing with intense spizzerinktum —which is the over-mastering will to succeed.
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Splatterdashing pearls of spring rain carelessly aimed multiple minor blows all over the above Raman passerby's body.