Sputtery vs Spluttery - What's the difference?
sputtery | spluttery |
prone to sputter
*{{quote-book, year=1927-1937, author=Ward Moore, title=Greener Than You Think, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It is but a gesture; I expect no coherent words from your clogged and sputtery pen; but while I am sufficiently like yourself to deceive the public into thinking you have written what they read, I am not yet great enough scoundrel to do so without your visiting the scene of your presumed labors. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=October 15, author=Mark Athitakis, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, title=The Treatment, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=On _____ Is an Apparition (Rossbin), the new album by his trio Blue Collar, he uses puckered curlicues, vocalizations distorted by the horn's tubing, sputtery stammers, quiet half-valved passages that turn his sound into a fluid whisper, and even some clear, straightforward long tones. }}
As adjectives the difference between sputtery and spluttery
is that sputtery is prone to sputter while spluttery is characterised by spluttering.sputtery
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