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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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