Word: splatterdash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From splatter + dash. In the "haphazard work" sense, perhaps influenced by slapdash. 1. An uproar. Example: 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 Example: Gas will have its share of the business going during June next, and without making any splatterdash about supplying at low prices. 2. A work (of art, literature, etc.) that gives the appearance of having been created in a haphazard, chaotic manner. Example: 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." Example: The absurd splatterdash which the Mage painted while blindfolded had nothing of Thibetan architecture about it, but resembled a ruined castle on the Rhine. 3. A spangle; a sparkly decoration. Example: 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." Example: 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. 4. Alternative form of spatterdash. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: At least two coats of impermeable render (suitable for plinth work) will be necessary on splatterdash and a galvanised background, additionally reinforced if necessary. Example: 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. 5. Spatterdashes. Labels: plural-normally Example: 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. Example: 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. 6. A warrior. Example: 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." Example: Alas for the splatterdashes! The unmanageable rebels suddenly seemed to be everywhere at once.