splatterdash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splatterdashes
Etymology: From splatter + dash. In the "haphazard work" sense, perhaps influenced by slapdash.
Senses: examples: text: Spluttersmash and splatterdash! In the shallow pools they splash, Like two wrestlers closing! Long they fight and twist and turn, But the race is over
ref: 1892, Robert Williams Buchanan, The Buchanan Ballads, Old and New, page 87:
text: Gas will have its share of the business going during June next, and without making any splatterdash about supplying at low prices.
ref: 1911 March 14, “Electricity Supply Memoranda”, in The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply & Sanitary Improvement, volume 113, page 756:
text: All the doubtful state forces swelled the anti-Seward splatterdash.
ref: 1971, William Eldon Baringer, Lincoln's Rise to Power, page 244:
glosses: An uproar.
examples: text: We landed and again possessed the isle in force[…]We found there was yet dispute of our ascendancy, five great canoes coming bow out[…]No soft garments now, not yet mere nakedness, but a splatterdash of color beyond any rainbow that ever was[…]"What is that?" queried a maiden huskily. "As I live, the strange things are bringing a doll-baby to fight us."
ref: 1892, W. H. Babcock, chapter 12, in The Brides of the Tiger, pages 162–163:
text: The absurd splatterdash which the Mage painted while blindfolded had nothing of Thibetan architecture about it, but resembled a ruined castle on the Rhine.
ref: 1906, Henry Evans, The Old and the New Magic:
text: In this same letter to Ballard, he [sc. Blackmore] refers to “that miserable book, the most absurd and hideous thing ever seen[…]Sprawling into prose my most highly finished rhythm—much of which is in strophe and antistrophe, as not a blessed soul has had the perception to discover[…]After sending me proofs in proper lines, according to my manuscript[…]I think this was a little cool. Without a word to me Messrs Burrows Brothers[…]broke it all up into splatterdash.”
ref: 1974, Waldo Hilary Dunn, quoting R. D. Blackmore, R. D. Blackmore: the author of "Lorna Doone"; a biography, page 242:
text: The lecturers are expert on lecturing on the subject, but they offer the splatterdash method of disseminating information with no point of view of their own.
ref: 1982, Hubert Ingram Bermont, The Complete Consultant: A Roadmap to Success, page 9:
glosses: A work (of art, literature, etc.) that gives the appearance of having been created in a haphazard, chaotic manner.
examples: text: When a member of the Governor's Footguards of Connecticut was parading with the company, his son stood at the gate with his mother, and as they flashed by in their splatterdash finery, he said: "Oh, ma, ain't they grand; and see, everybody is out of step but father."
ref: 1928, James Schermerhorn, Schermerhorn's Stories, page 155:
text: The program is a 28-page booklet printed on a cream-colored paper with gold splatterdash, and with a French-fold cover of blue and gold.
ref: 1937, Eastern Star News, page 5:
text: one of the employees of Thomas Webb of Stourbridge, a firm that had been making iridescent glass since 1878, took out a patent for “vasa Murrhina,” a type of spangle or splatterdash glass with a transparent body which was embedded with flakes of mica.
ref: 1967, Mario Amaya, Tiffany Glass, page 50:
glosses: A spangle; a sparkly decoration.
examples: text: At least two coats of impermeable render (suitable for plinth work) will be necessary on splatterdash and a galvanised background, additionally reinforced if necessary.
ref: 2013, Theodor Hugues, Klaus Greilich, Christine Peter, Building with Large Clay Blocks, page 45:
text: In addition, the function of a splatterdash coat, which allows the rendering system to adhere to the fiber cement plate, is fulfilled by coarse sand spread over the surface after having been first coated with an epoxy film.
ref: 2015, D. Hoffmann, K. Niesel, H. Rooss, “Effects of Air Pollutants on Renderings: Experimental Protocols and Background”, in Norbert Baer, R.A. Livingstone, S. Fitz, editors, Conservation of Historic Brick Structures:
glosses: Alternative form of spatterdash.
examples: text: He wore a black coat, rather worn than old, which hung in tatters, a very fine but dirty shirt, frayed ruffles; a pair of splatterdashes so large that he could have put both legs into either of them, and, to secure himself from the snow, a little hat, only fit to be carried under his arm.
ref: 1769, Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau:
text: Here Gabriele was awaiting the arrival of her lover, and hastening to welcome him the moment he alighted from his steed, stood by his side, while the pages removed his sword, spurs, and splatterdashes.
ref: 1845, Albert Henry Payne, Payne's Royal Dresden Gallery, page 98:
text: Sometimes he also wore splatterdashes, especially if he was on a horse. Splatterdashes were loose leggings that came up to his thigh.
ref: 1974 October, “A Pilgrim from Head to Toe”, in Boys' Life, volume 64, number 10, page 45:
text: And, as all the really big spat people will tell you, the splatterdash should be as individual to a fellow as his shoe.
ref: 1985, Punch, volume 288, page 65:
text: Sarah Alice dressed in borrowed rocket, splatterdash, and boots, and followed her brothers through the smoke and dust into the woods.
ref: 1999, Donald Batchelor, Becoming Americans, page 294:
glosses: Spatterdashes.
examples: text: They also painted their faces, and, according to Wood, imprinted figures with a searing iron upon their bodies; perhaps, as he suggests, "to blazon their antique Gentilitie," for, he says, "a sagamore with a Humberd in his eare for a pendant, a black hawke on his occiput for his plume, Mowhackees for his gold chaine, good store of Wampmpeage begirting his loynes, his bow in his hand, his quiver at his bac, with six naked Indian splatterdashes at his heeles for his guard, thinkes himself little inferior to the great Cham; hee will not stick to say, hee is all one with King Charles."
ref: 1892, James P. Baxter, “The Abnakis and Their Ethnic Relations”, in Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, page 27:
text: Alas for the splatterdashes! The unmanageable rebels suddenly seemed to be everywhere at once.
ref: 1989, Hoghton Tower, page 13:
glosses: A warrior.