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splashback

noun

Etymology

From splash + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as splashback — “splash + back”

Definitions

  1. Splashes of liquid, especially noxious liquid, rebounding from a surface.

  2. A shield of an easily-cleaned material, such as those placed behind an oven top or…

    A shield of an easily-cleaned material, such as those placed behind an oven top or kitchen sink and at industrial facilities, construction sites, etc, in order to catch splashes of liquid.

    • The oven comes complete with a stainless steel splashback.
    • In 1959, for a girl there were toy cookers in clinical white stove enamel, with a time clock set in the splash-back, and with two hot plates which really worked by using special fuel tablets which burnt from ten to 15 minutes.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA