English
Etymology
From the root of spout or spit to eject from the mouth.
Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�t�(r)|-�t�(r)
Noun
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- 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.
#:They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. -Congreve.
- To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
#:Like the green wood...sputtering in the flame. -Dryden.
- transitive 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 intransitive To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
#physics transitive To coat the surface of an object by sputtering
References
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