Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A variant of
splotch .
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Examples
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But luckily the housewife saw it, and she nipped it between her finger and thumb, and, because it was only half-baked, it fell with a "splatch" on the cold floor.
Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917
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But luckily the housewife saw it, and she nipped it between her finger and thumb, and, because it was only half-baked, it fell with a "splatch" on the cold floor.
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When I would obtain, by a large splatch of color spread on with a knife, a striking and unexpected effect, she would, in spite of herself, give vent to a half-suppressed ` Oh! 'of astonishment, of joy, of admiration.
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When I would obtain, by a large splatch of color spread on with a knife, a striking and unexpected effect, she would, in spite of herself, give vent to a half-suppressed 'Oh!' of astonishment, of joy, of admiration.
Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871
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When I would obtain, by a large splatch of color spread on with a knife, a striking and unexpected effect, she would, in spite of herself, give vent to a half-suppressed "Ah!" of astonishment, of joy, of admiration.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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_shadows_, and you may have sufficient reason to guess that a _point_ may appear much more _ugly_ then _this_, which I have here presented, which though it appear'd through the _Microscope_ _gray_, like a great splatch of
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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a light, and he clapped a great splatch of a seal on either bag; and then he looked at Joe, and gave a little grunt of a laugh, and
The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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