Splutter

Quick meaning: Splutter is a noun meaning (countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.

Meaning

(countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.
2. A noisy commotion.
3. A disagreement or dispute.
4. Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
5. To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
6. To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
7. To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).

Example Sentences

a splutter of water from a pipe

a splutter of rage from the old man

There has been much spluttering about the prince’s use of ‘Americanisms’ in a letter to Emmanuel Macron, but the truth is more complicated[.]

But party carries every thing nowadays, and what a splutter have I heard about the wit of that saying, repeated with admiration about a hundred times in half an hour.

Word Forms

• splutters
• spluttering
• spluttered
• splutterest
• splutteredst
• spluttereth

Synonyms for splutter

Depending on context, synonyms include controversy, sputter, spatter, splatter, spattering, splattering.

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