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Definition of Splashed
1. Adjective. (of a fluid) having been propelled about in flying drops or masses. "With clothes wet by splashed water"
2. Adjective. Covered with bright patches (often used in combination). "Kitchen walls splattered with grease"
Definition of Splashed
1. Verb. (past of splash) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Splashed
1. splash [v] - See also: splash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splashed
Literary usage of Splashed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nests and Eggs of North American Birds by Oliver Davie (1889)
"Four eggs, vary greatly in color, from finely spotted to heavily splashed with
different shades of brown ; sizes, 2.44 x 1.96, 2-55x 1.96, 2.45x2.00, ..."
2. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"The fruit is pretty large, bright greenish-yellow washed and splashed with red,
quite attractive in appearance and good in quality. ..."
3. Mendelism by Reginald Crundall Punnett (1911)
"proportions, viz., one black, two blues, one splashed white. This at once suggests
that the black and the splashed white are the two homozygous forms, ..."
4. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1860)
"Skin light yellow, striped, splashed, and marbled with crimson, and thickly
sprinkled with tight brown dots. Stem short, inserted in a broad deep cavity ..."
5. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1901)
"Ripe September 10 ; colour yellow, heavily splashed with ... Ripe September Iß ;
colour deep yellow, slightly splashed with red ; depth 1J inches ; nearly ..."
6. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1828)
"before him, with his buff-coat splashed with blood, and a bloody axe in his hand,
exhibiting a ghastly and disgusting spectacle to the revellers, who felt, ..."
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