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Sputter vs Scutter - What's the difference?

sputter | scutter |

As nouns the difference between sputter and scutter

is that sputter is moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech while scutter is thin excrement.

As verbs the difference between sputter and scutter

is that sputter is to spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking while scutter is to void thin excrement.

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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    scutter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Thin excrement.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), (Telemachus episode):
    • Scutter! he cried thickly.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To void thin excrement.
  • * 1565 , Alois Brandl (ed.), King Daryus :
    • Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter.
    Here, take some, it will make thee to scutter .
  • To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.
    • We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.

    Derived terms

    * bullscutter * scutterer