"spattery" meaning in English

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          "text": "On a raw wintry morning, a watermill may talk of damp and rats, and other comfortless things; but on such a day as this is, its cool gushing sound and spattery playfulness are delicious both to ear and eye.",
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          "ref": "1920, Edith Ballinger Price, chapter 9, in Us and the Bottle Man, New York: Century, page 107:",
          "text": "The rain went plop into the pools, and made a flattish, spattery sound on the rock.",
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          "ref": "2006, David Foster Wallace, “Federer Both Flesh and Not”, in Both Flesh and Not, Boston: Little, Brown, published 2012:",
          "text": "And the spattery gale that has knocked over parking signs and everted umbrellas all morning suddenly quits an hour before match time […]",
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          "text": "[…] he traced upon the paper, slowly, awkwardly, but without stopping once, a tangle of heavy, shaken, spattery lines, in which could nevertheless be recognized the signature of “Tarbox Button.”",
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          "ref": "1981, Manly Wade Wellman, “Nobody Ever Goes There”, in John the Balladeer, New York: Baen Books, page 222:",
          "text": "From where they sat they could see a spattery shimmer of moonlight on the water […]",
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