Sputters vs Spatters - What's the difference?
sputters | spatters |
(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
(spatter)
To splash with small droplets.
To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
(figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.
As verbs the difference between sputters and spatters
is that sputters is (sputter) while spatters is (spatter).sputters
English
Verb
(head)sputter
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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
*spatters
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *spatter
English
Verb
(en verb)- When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
- to spatter blood
- (Alexander Pope)