different between splat vs splooge

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /splæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From earlier splat (“to spread flat”), from Middle English splatten, splaten (“to stretch out, extend", also "to split”). Compare dialectal English splat (“flat”).

Noun

splat (plural splats)

1. The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia

Noun

splat (plural splats)

1. The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.

   I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor.

2. The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.

   The canvas was covered by seemingly careless splats of paint.

3. (computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
4. (computing, slang) Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
   1. The asterisk *
   2. The hash symbol #
5. A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
6. A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPALT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.

Usage notes

• (computing, asterisk): Usage may be limited based on the function of the symbol in a particular context. In the Ruby programming language, for example, the asterisk is called a splat when used to construct or separate an array, but not when used as a multiplication operator.

Verb

splat (third-person singular simple present splats, present participle splatting, simple past and past participle splatted)

1. (intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.

2. (transitive) To splatter.

3. (computer graphics, transitive) To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.

Related terms

• splat mat
• splatter

See also

• plop
• splash
• sploosh
• sploop

Anagrams

• -plast, plats, slapt, spalt

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /splu?d??/

Noun

splooge (uncountable)

1. (slang) semen
2. (slang) ejaculation

Verb

splooge (third-person singular simple present splooges, present participle splooging, simple past and past participle splooged)

1. (slang) to ejaculate
   • 2005, Loyd Skiles, Truck'n

     […] an Indian chick who wouldn't fuck him, but would let him rub his dick between her ass cheeks and splooge on her back.

   • 2006, Joe "Duff" McBride, A Tale of Two Gimps: Such Is Life

     Mouse had his cum face on before she stuffed him inside, and he splooged 30 seconds later.

2. (slang) to spill or splat