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sputter


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sputter  \Sput"ter\,  v.  t. 
  To  spit  out  hastily  by  quick,  successive  efforts,  with  a 
  spluttering  sound;  to  utter  hastily  and  confusedly,  without 
  control  over  the  organs  of  speech. 
 
  In  the  midst  of  caresses,  and  without  the  last  pretend 
  incitement,  to  sputter  out  the  basest  accusations. 
  --Swift. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sputter  \Sput"ter\,  n. 
  Moist  matter  thrown  out  in  small  detached  particles;  also 
  confused  and  hasty  speech. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sputter  \Sput"ter\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Sputtered};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Sputtering}.]  [From  the  root  of  spout  or  spit  to 
  eject  from  the  mputh.  Cf  {Splutter}.] 
  1.  To  spit,  or  to  emit  saliva  from  the  mouth  in  small 
  scattered  portions,  as  in  rapid  speaking. 
 
  2.  To  utter  words  hastily  and  indistinctly;  to  speak  so 
  rapidly  as  to  emit  saliva. 
 
  They  could  neither  of  them  speak  their  rage,  and  so 
  fell  a  sputtering  at  one  another,  like  two  roasting 
  apples.  --Congreve. 
 
  3.  To  throw  out  anything  as  little  jets  of  steam,  with  a 
  noise  like  that  made  by  one  sputtering. 
 
  Like  the  green  wood  .  .  .  sputtering  in  the  flame. 
  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sputter 
  n  1:  the  noise  of  something  spattering  or  sputtering  explosively; 
  "he  heard  a  spatter  of  gunfire"  [syn:  {spatter},  {spattering}, 
  {splatter},  {splattering},  {splutter},  {sputtering}] 
  2:  an  utterance  (of  words)  with  spitting  sounds  (as  in  rage) 
  [syn:  {splutter}] 
  v  1:  make  an  explosive  sound 
  2:  cause  to  undergo  a  process  in  which  atoms  are  removed:  "The 
  solar  wind  protons  must  sputter  away  the  surface  atoms  of 
  the  dust" 
  3:  climb  awkwardly,  as  if  by  scrambling  [syn:  {clamber},  {scramble}, 
  {shin},  {shinny},  {skin},  {struggle}] 
  4:  utter  with  a  spitting  sound,  as  if  in  a  rage  [syn:  {splutter}] 
  5:  spit  up  in  an  explosive  manner  [syn:  {splutter},  {spit  out}] 




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