Sputter vs Spitter - What's the difference?
sputter | spitter |
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
A person who or animal or object that spits.
(baseball) A spitball.
One who puts meat on a spit.
A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
As nouns the difference between sputter and spitter
is that sputter is moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech while spitter is a person who or animal or object that spits.As a verb sputter
is to spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.sputter
English
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(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.
