spluttering
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1. spluttering - Noun
2. spluttering - Verb
Meaning
of Splutter
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The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
Each day the pandemic exposes the failures of a stripped-back state, its underfunded engines spluttering on the corrosive oil of social inequality.
His subjects are, unintentionally, funny enough in their own right, he explained: “Just by giving a spluttering interview, 70 per cent of the material is already written – all I have to do is cut it up.”
But so too is the cost of not eliminating the virus, and having to live in a spluttering economy – going in and out of lockdown – until a vaccine hopefully arrives.
Pope Francis previously sparked concern he could have contracted coronavirus after he was pictured coughing and spluttering while addressing pilgrims at the start of the month.
"The motor was spluttering and then it just stopped," witness Karen Frater said.