Verb

(head)

(sputter)

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

Verb

(head)

(splutter)

Verb

(en verb)

to spray droplets while speaking

to speak hurriedly and confusedly

to perform to a substandard level

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, year=2011 , date=January 5 , author=Mark Ashenden , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Manchester City, Liverpool, Bolton and Manchester United come next for Wolves in the Premier League but McCarthy's men will fear no one after beating Chelsea for the first time in 18 years, while Ancelotti has much to ponder as his players continue to splutter .}}