Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An irregularly shaped spot, stain, or colored area.
- transitive verb To mark with splotches or a splotch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A broad, ill-defined spot; a stain; a daub; a smear.
- To soil with splotches; cause to look splotchy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A spot; a stain; a daub.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An irregular-shaped spot or stain.
- verb To mark with splotches.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an irregularly shaped spot
- verb blotch or spot
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Time had not mellowed the raw crudity of this "splotch," which Browning found recorded in no old, square, yellow vellum book, but in the French newspapers of that very August; the final judgment of the court at Caen
Robert Browning 1892
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Valerie, on the other hand, is wearing a strange little white party dress with a weird black splotch on the side.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish" Holly Cara Price 2010
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Valerie, on the other hand, is wearing a strange little white party dress with a weird black splotch on the side.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish" Holly Cara Price 2010
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Valerie, on the other hand, is wearing a strange little white party dress with a weird black splotch on the side.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish" Holly Cara Price 2010
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Valerie, on the other hand, is wearing a strange little white party dress with a weird black splotch on the side.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish" Holly Cara Price 2010
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Valerie, on the other hand, is wearing a strange little white party dress with a weird black splotch on the side.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish" Holly Cara Price 2010
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Cow tipping was never considered cruel or inhumane so I am sure a paint splotch that will wash off by the end of the day would be perfectly acceptable.
I've been thinking of using a paint ball gun for coyote hunting! 2009
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Valerie, on the other hand, is wearing a strange little white party dress with a weird black splotch on the side.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish" Holly Cara Price 2010
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Cow tipping was never considered cruel or inhumane so I am sure a paint splotch that will wash off by the end of the day would be perfectly acceptable.
I've been thinking of using a paint ball gun for coyote hunting! 2009
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Valerie, on the other hand, is wearing a strange little white party dress with a weird black splotch on the side.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish" Holly Cara Price 2010
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