a. Now dial. [Cf. prec.] Having a broad flat face.
1707. J. Stevens, trans. Quevedo’s Com. Wks. (1709), 346. You splatter-fac’d Cully!
1785. G. A. Bellamy, Apology (ed. 3), I. 26. This goggle-eyed, splatter-faced, gabbart-mouthed wretch, is not my child!
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., vi. A splatter-faced wench neither civil nor nimble!
1894. in Heslop, Northumbld. Gloss.
