to sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.-to distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.-fig.: to injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.-to throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.