splotty

comparative splottier · superlative splottiest

1. rareCovered with splots or splotches; splotchy.

   I look for jet contrails in the splotty snow sky.

   1976, Carolina Quarterly, volumes 28-29, page 76

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   While a new play was preparing, it was his task to ensure fair copies were made from the author's foul papers, since no-one can use a splotty, scrawled and scratched-out manuscript, all warm and illegible from its creator's hand.

   2012, Philip Gooden, Death of Kings: No 2 - Issue 2

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1. rareResembling a splat.

   Reacting to the splotty sound, Myke Phoenix jumped up onto the roof, landing not far from where a big white blotch of web was wriggling.

   2019, Warren Bluhm, Myke Phoenix - The Complete Novelettes, page 561

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   The ice cream seemed to lift itself out of the cone and up into the air. It climbed in a great curve and then it dropped with a splotty plop on to the dusty pavement.

   2017, Mark Billen, Beware of the Neighbourhood Witch, page 21