Etymology

splat

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Today it means: The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back. Full definition →

Middle English splatten
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splat · noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited fromsplatten
  2. English todaysplat

From earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).

splat · noun, verb2

Onomatopoeic.

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