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sputter | sputtery |

As a noun sputter

is moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

As a verb sputter

is to spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

As an adjective sputtery is

prone to sputter.

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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    sputtery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • prone to sputter
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927-1937, author=Ward Moore, title=Greener Than You Think, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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 citation
    • , 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. }}