Scuttered vs Sputtered - What's the difference?
scuttered | sputtered |
(scutter)
Thin excrement.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), (Telemachus episode):
To void thin excrement.
* 1565 , Alois Brandl (ed.), King Daryus :
To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.
(sputter)
Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
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
* Jonathan Swift
To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
* Dryden
To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
(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
As verbs the difference between scuttered and sputtered
is that scuttered is (scutter) while sputtered is (sputter).scuttered
English
Verb
(head)scutter
English
Noun
(en noun)- Scutter! he cried thickly.
Verb
(en verb)- Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter.
Here, take some, it will make thee to scutter .
- We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.
Derived terms
* bullscutter * scutterersputtered
English
Verb
(head)sputter
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.
- To sputter out the basest accusations.
- Like the green wood sputtering in the flame.
- In the midst of caresses, and without the last pretend incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations. -Swift.