Sputtered vs Puttered - What's the difference?
sputtered | puttered |
(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
(putter)
(label) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
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, title= (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
(golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
As verbs the difference between sputtered and puttered
is that sputtered is (sputter) while puttered is (putter).sputtered
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.
See also
* spit nailsReferences
*Anagrams
*puttered
English
Verb
(head)putter
English
Etymology 1
Alteration ofVerb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.}}
