sputter

Speech parts

1. sputter - Noun

2. sputter - Verb

Meaning

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.

To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.

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

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You go out for a walk and the world opens up for you. And before you've even stretched your legs properly, it closes shut. For here to there it's all just the farty sputter of lantern. And they call that having lived. It's not worth the bother of putting on your shoes. Herta Müller

The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust Source: Internet

sputtering engines Source: Internet

Depth profiles are shown as either Auger peak height vs. sputter time or atomic concentration vs. depth. Source: Internet

But if you are conversant with any facts at all, you can only sputter: WTF! Source: Internet

At the track Lanier says that he doesn’t think much of the time missed or the promising racing career that didn’t so much sputter as it left skid marks. Source: Internet

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