different between gory vs splatter

English

Etymology

From gore +? -y. Compare Middle English güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?????.i/
• Rhymes: -??ri

Adjective

gory (comparative gorier, superlative goriest)

1. covered with blood, very bloody
2. (informal) unpleasant

   Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.

Translations

Anagrams

• Gy?r, gyro, gyro-, ogry, orgy

Lower Sorbian

Noun

gory

1. Superseded spelling of góry.

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably a blend of splash +? spatter.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?splæt?/
• Rhymes: -æt?(r)

Noun

splatter (countable and uncountable, plural splatters)

1. An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.

2. (uncountable, attributive) A genre of gory horror.

Translations

Verb

splatter (third-person singular simple present splatters, present participle splattering, simple past and past participle splattered)

1. (intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.

2. (transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.

3. (transitive) To spatter (something or somebody).
   • 2012, Kimberly J. Heide, Doors of Promise (page 100)

     Her wet hands […] splattered him with suds.

Translations

Anagrams

• Platters, partlets, platters, prattles, sprattle