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Sputter

/ˈspʌtɚ/

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.

📖 Definitions of "Sputter"

noun
  1. 1

    Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.

  2. 2

    Confused and hasty speech.

verb
  1. 1

    To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

  2. 2

    To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.

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