splutter
IPA: spɫˈʌtɝ
noun
- (countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
- (countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.
- (figuratively)
- (countable) A noisy commotion.
- (countable) A disagreement or dispute.
- (uncountable) Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
verb
- (transitive)
- To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
- To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
- (figuratively)
- To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
- Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- (intransitive)
- Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
- To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
- Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
- To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
- Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
- To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
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Examples of "splutter" in Sentences
- The revolt continued to splutter on.
- Eventually I'm learning to swim, as well as splutter.
- The Slime Boglins were Splutter, Splurge, Splash and Splodge.
- It will splutter and sizzle like hell when you put the stuff in.
- And this is for making me splutter my morning coffee all over the monitor ...
- A minute later the splutter of an exhaust told them the silencer had been taken off.
- The recording itself is thrilling, if warts-and-all, with Pappano singing along, while the audience cough and splutter between movements.
- Draught horses are led around the smaller ring, and nearby dozens of stationary engines chuff, splutter and bounce on individual pitches.
- Jeffrey sez, We're getting more and more excellent panoramic photographers uploading their spherical panoramas to our site - but this one made me splutter with delight.
- "This isn't reality TV!" they splutter, settling in for 60 solid minutes watching a woman fake-tanned the shade of a third-degree burn glueing diamante craft beads on to her vagina.
- If they dont splutter over their retraction at this point, then they would more likely be at home being a patient of a mental ward rather than managing one. on July 7, 2009 at 11: 08 am grim rupert
- It is of a monster enterprise monstering itself, of a family that can't get a grip – on itself or dad; of a dynasty falling apart as shareholders splutter and investors turned chicken cross the road.
- An unexpected beat on a snare drum made a French horn splutter out a belching sound, and in the back of the band something big emitted a snort, one that made Lisa think of a blue whale that had just surfaced after a week underwater.