Blitted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have something splattered or burst upon a surface; to display an image or mark carelessly; an action where something is abruptly and messily transferred or projected onto a medium
2. To cause liquid or color to scatter haphazardly across an area; to obscure an image or text through a clumsy, splashed application; to abruptly smear or blot something, leaving unintended marks
3. To result in a chaotic or unintentional mess on a surface; to create a disorganized impression by splashing or spattering; an act of carelessly overlaying something that distracts or confuses the original appearance

Etymology: The verb has a clear modern source in computing. Programmers shortened "bit block transfer", the operation of copying a rectangle of pixels from one part of a screen to another, to "blit", and the verb grew from that abbreviation. Its older sense of splashing or spattering is not well documented, and the standard references do not agree on where it came from, so any link to the computing term there is unconfirmed. The past tense is simply the verb's regular "-ed" form.