English

Etymology

From the root of spout or spit to eject from the mouth.

Pronunciation

• :Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ʌtə(r)|-ʌtə(r)

Noun

1. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

Verb

1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
3. :They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. -Congreve.
4. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
5. :Like the green wood...sputtering in the flame. -Dryden.
6. To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
7. :In the midst of caresses, and without the last pretend incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations. -Swift.
8. To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
9. To coat the surface of an object by sputtering

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