To scatter or throw about carelessly, as some fluid or semi-fluid substance; dash or splash so as to fall in spreading drops or small quantities: as, to spatter water or mud over a person; to spatter oaths or calumnies.To dash or splash upon; bespatter, literally or figuratively: as, to spatter a person with water, mud, or slander.To sputter; act or talk in a sputtering manner.To undergo or cause scattering or splashing in drops or small quantities.n. The act of spattering, or the state of being spattered; a spattering or splashing effect.n. A quick succession of not very loud sounds, such as is produced by the spattering of some substance.n. That which is spattered; a small splash, as of something thrown or falling in drops: as, a spatter of milk, ink, or mud on one's clothes.