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Sputter vs Chug - What's the difference?

sputter | chug |

As nouns the difference between sputter and chug

is that sputter is moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech while chug is a dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.

As verbs the difference between sputter and chug

is that sputter is to spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking while chug is to make dull explosive sounds.

sputter

English

Noun

(-)
  • Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
  • To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
  • * Congreve
    • They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • To sputter out the basest accusations.
  • To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
  • * Dryden
    • Like the green wood sputtering in the flame.
  • 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.
  • (physics) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
  • (physics) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering

    • See also

    * spit nails

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    chug

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeia

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.
  • A large gulp of drink.
    • He drank his beer in three chugs .
  • A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival.

    • Verb

  • To make dull explosive sounds.
  • To move or travel whilst making such sounds.
    • We were chugging along a back road when the engine cut out.
  • (slang) to drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action; to chugalug.
    • I can't believe he chugged three beers.
    Synonyms
    * (drink) See also

    Etymology 2

    blend of chihuahua and pug

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dog; a cross between a pug and a chihuahua.

    • Etymology 3

    blend of charity and mug

    Verb

  • (transitive, UK slang, derogatory) To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner.
    • I got chugged in the town centre today.

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative, racial slur) A person of Native American descent.
    • English onomatopoeias