Sputter

Quick meaning: Sputter is a noun meaning Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.

Meaning

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.

More Meanings

1. Confused and hasty speech.
2. (intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
3. (ambitransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
4. (ambitransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
5. (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
6. (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

Example Sentences

Like the green wood [...] sputtering in the flame.

They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.

In the midst of caresses, and without the least pretended incitement, to sputter out the basest and falsest accusations.

The child [...] kicked, and crowed, and sputtered, when his mother took him, and put up his little fingers to clutch her hair, and was to her as a young god upon the earth. Nothing in the world had ever been created so beautiful, so joyous, so satisfactory, so divine!

Word Forms

• sputters
• sputtering
• sputtered

Synonyms for sputter

Depending on context, synonyms include scramble, clamber, struggle, splutter, shin, spatter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spattering, splattering, spatter, splatter, splutter, skin.

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