(v. t.) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
Example Sentences:
(1) September 6, 2013 8.19am BST One more gobbet of economic news -- UK house prices are rising at their fastest rate since 2010.
(2) Keystone laboratories came up with McNuggets, little gobbets of minced, reconstituted chicken, battered and breaded.
(3) The British National party chairman, Nick Griffin, seemed to agree, elegantly tweeting that the speech was "patently insecure bullshit"– as well as illustrating the elevated heights to which social media have taken political debate, when one or two impulsive lefties re-tweeted another of his gobbets, about the Labour leader acting as a "recruiting sergeant" for the BNP.
(4) In reply, he spat a gobbet of sickly racism inspired by the African spirit of the show.
(5) Updated at 2.49pm BST 2.38pm BST ECB buys no bonds, looks to OMT A small gobbet of news from the European Central Bank – it bought precisely zero government bonds last week via its SMP scheme.
(6) To conclude the tour she curls up on a sofa, tosses gobbets of popcorn into her mouth and relaxes with a film from Trump’s on-board cinémathèque of a thousand movies.
(7) Ultimately, if you're going to pebbledash your drama with walloping great gobbets of cartoon gore, it's probably best to make sure that it is, at the very least, scary.
Spatter
Definition:
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
(v. t.) Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
(v. i.) To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tarantino’s blood-spattered, race-themed western was in fact his biggest hit, taking $425m worldwide.
(2) Inside, the white pillars in the big empty atrium were spattered with blood, and splintered wood and broken chairs hinted at the violence of the three-hour battle.
(3) In the early spring, Atlantic rollers pound the beach while gulls strut in rain-spattered tidal pools.
(4) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
(5) An experiment at the same Moscow facility in 1999 descended into chaos when a Russian captain forced a kiss on a female Canadian crew member, and two other Russians got drunk and ended up in a fist fight that left blood spattered over the capsule walls.
(6) In Muslim areas, the flag appeared in leaflets in a blood-spattered montage of Tony Blair and George Bush and troops in Iraq, while underneath it she played to religious homophobia by claiming that Labour was allowing children to be propositioned for homosexual relationships.
(7) However, the team still found blood from the attack spattered on some walls and ceilings and also brought back bullet casings that matched weapons Bales was reported to have carried, and fabric that matched a blanket prosecutors say he wore as a cape.
(8) The receipts are being published not merely too late, but also after being liberally spattered with a black marker pen in a way that covers up all the worst crimes.
(9) A central square was left spattered with blood after baton-wielding police dispersed crowds.
(10) As a shell blasted through the wall, showering occupants with shrapnel and spattering blood on walls and floors, Amna Zantit, 31, scrambled to gather up her three terrified infants in a panicked bid for the relative safety of the schoolyard.
(11) "Given that it's usually around 45-50 minutes long, I always presumed you waxed lyrical for many hours talking about everything from Boney M to punching wildlife, with a spattering of football in between, and producer Ben chopped it all down to 45 mintues of football chat.
(12) Sign up for our film masterclasses Xan Brooks tentatively enters through cinema's blood-spattered back door as he looks for some truly terrifying thrils in cinema's tawdriest genre Photograph: guardian.co.uk Join us to explore the wonder of cinematography at our second Guardian film masterclass .
(13) After the press conference, St Louis County police department shared pictures of the officer’s blood-spattered face mask.
(14) Its crew found Baby P already stiff and blue in his blood-spattered cot.
(15) (I find it useful to cover the pot with an inexpensive spatter screen to catch any spattering chilli.)
(16) • A defence witness called to dispute the state’s version of how Steenkamp was killed was labelled “irresponsible” by Nel, who pointed out that Roger Dixon was not trained in ballistics, light, sound or blood spatter evidence .
(17) As to Scarfe's cartoon specifically, it seems to me almost identical to every other blood-spattered pictorial lament for man's inhumanity to man he's knocked out over the past 40 years.
(18) It was early March and snow was still spattered on the leaf mould between the firs and larches.
(19) The prosecutor also said blood spatter evidence indicated that the athlete's statement about the location of a duvet in the bedroom was false.
(20) Pro-government media quickly published graphic pictures of the blood-spattered bodies of the five dead Egyptians – Tarek Saad Abdel Fattah, 52; his son Saad Tarek Saad, 26; his son-in-law Salah Ali Sayed, 40; Mostafa Bakr, 60; and Farouk.