spattery

spatter +‎ -y

spattery (comparative more spattery, superlative most spattery)

1. Accompanied or caused by spattering.
   • 1837, Mary Boddington, Sketches in the Pyrenees, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Volume 1, Chapter 2, p. 27,

     On a raw wintry morning, a watermill may talk of damp and rats, and other comfortless things; but on such a day as this is, its cool gushing sound and spattery playfulness are delicious both to ear and eye.

   • 1920, Edith Ballinger Price, Us and the Bottle Man, New York: Century, Chapter 9, p. 107,

     The rain went plop into the pools, and made a flattish, spattery sound on the rock.

   • 2006, David Foster Wallace, “Federer Both Flesh and Not” in Both Flesh and Not, Boston: Little, Brown, 2012,

     And the spattery gale that has knocked over parking signs and everted umbrellas all morning suddenly quits an hour before match time […]

2. Covered with or in the form of spatters.
   • 1874, Frederic B. Perkins, Scrope; or, The Lost Library, Boston: Roberts Brothers, Chapter , p. 256,

     […] he traced upon the paper, slowly, awkwardly, but without stopping once, a tangle of heavy, shaken, spattery lines, in which could nevertheless be recognized the signature of “Tarbox Button.”

   • 1981, Manly Wade Wellman, “Nobody Ever Goes There” in John the Balladeer, New York: Baen Books, p. 222,

     From where they sat they could see a spattery shimmer of moonlight on the water […]

• tapestry, tryptase