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Sputters vs Spatters - What's the difference?

sputters | spatters |

As verbs the difference between sputters and spatters

is that sputters is (sputter) while spatters is (spatter).

sputters

English

Verb

(head)
  • (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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    spatters

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spatter)
  • Anagrams

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    spatter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To splash with small droplets.
  • When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
  • To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
  • to spatter blood
    (Alexander Pope)
  • (figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.
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