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Sputter   /spˈətər/   Listen
Sputter

verb
(past & past part. sputtered; pres. part. sputtering)
1.
Make an explosive sound.
2.
Cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed.
3.
Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.  Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle.
4.
Utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage.  Synonym: splutter.
5.
Spit up in an explosive manner.  Synonyms: spit out, splutter.
noun
1.
The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively.  Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering.
2.
An utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage).  Synonym: splutter.



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"Sputter" Quotes from Famous Books



... Russia. It took a little perspicacity to see that something was weighing on the good man's mind; something he had come to say and for his honest life could not get out. His plight became more pitiable as the interview proceeded, and when he rose to go, he grew as red as a turkey-cock and began to sputter. I went ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... Public-spirited Press Gang. Go around and grab the Great and the Good who insist on minding their private business and who are letting the country be gobbled up—just go and grab 'em right up by the scruff of the neck and fling them into politics head over heels. They would sputter and froth and flop for a little while—and then they'd strike out and swim. They couldn't help swimming! They'd know that the folks were looking on. And then a lot of the sinking and drowning poor devils, like you and me and the folks in the tenements, ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... among the others, about him and about him; and it is notable how little real light, on any point of his existence or environment, they have managed to communicate. Dim indeed, for most part a mere epigrammatic sputter of darkness visible, is the "picture" they have fashioned to themselves of Friedrich and his Country and his Century. Men not "of genius," apparently? Alas, no; men fatally destitute of true eyesight, and of loyal ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. I. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--Birth And Parentage.--1712. • Thomas Carlyle
... reached the table he threw his broad-brimmed hat, down with such an unnecessary flourish of the arm that he knocked over one of the heavy pewter candlesticks, so that it rolled down upon the floor, causing the tallow candle to sputter and die out with a weird and ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... temper. Having heard them ever since babyhood he was quite accustomed to their acid tang; moreover, he had learned to gage them for what they were worth and class them along with the froth on a soda or the sputter of a freshly lighted match. The thing underneath was what mattered and he knew well that beneath the torrent of words his mother was the best mother on earth, so what more ...
— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett


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