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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make repeated or sporadic spitting sounds.
- intransitive verb To speak hastily and incoherently, as when confused or angry.
- intransitive verb To utter or express hastily and incoherently.
- noun A spluttering noise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bustle; stir; commotion.
- To sputter.
- To talk hastily and confusedly.
- To utter confusedly or indistinctly, as through haste, excitement, embarrassment, or the like: often with out or forth: as, to
splutter out an apology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb colloq. To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.
- noun colloq. A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
spray droplets whilespeaking - verb to
speak hurriedly andconfusedly - verb to perform to a substandard level
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- verb spit up in an explosive manner
- noun the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- noun an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"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.
Grace Dent's TV OD Grace Dent 2010
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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.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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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
Criminals Insist On Being Naughty SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The recording itself is thrilling, if warts-and-all, with Pappano singing along, while the audience cough and splutter between movements.
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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.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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A minute later the splutter of an exhaust told them the silencer had been taken off.
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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.
Boing Boing 2009
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Draught horses are led around the smaller ring, and nearby dozens of stationary engines chuff, splutter and bounce on individual pitches.
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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.
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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.
News Corp saga is gripping: let's soak up the family drama 2011
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synonyms (164)
Words with the same meaning
- assibilate
- assibilation
- barrage
- beat
- beat a ruffle
- beat a tattoo
- beating
- bicker
- blubber
- bluff
- bluster
- bluster and bluff
- blustering
- boastfulness
- bounce
- brag
- bravado
- bully
- bullying
- bustle
- buzz
- dance
- drone
- drum
- drum music
- drumbeat
- drumfire
- drumming
- effervesce
- effervescence
- effervescing
- fanfaronade
- fizz
- fizzle
- fizzling
- flap
- flick
- flicker
- flip
- flit
- flitter
- flop
- flurry
- fluster
- flutter
- frication
- frictional rustling
- fuss
- gabble
- gasconade
- gibber
- go pitapat
- gutter
- hector
- hectoring
- hiss
- hissing
- hush
- hushing
- intimidate
- intimidation
- jabber
- lisp
- maunder
- mouth
- mumble
- murmur
- mutter
- out-herod Herod
- palpitate
- palpitation
- paradiddle
- patter
- pitapat
- pitter-patter
- pound
- pounding
- pulsate
- pulsation
- pulse
- quiver
- rage
- rant
- rat-a-tat
- rat-tat
- rat-tat-tat
- rataplan
- rattattoo
- rave
- rhonchus
- rip out
- rodomontade
- roister
- roll
- rollick
- rub-a-dub
- ruff
- ruffle
- shake
- shush
- shushing
- sibilance
- sibilate
- sibilation
- side
- siffle
- sigmatism
- siss
- sissing
- sizz
- sizzle
- sizzling
- slang
- slat
- sneeze
- sneezing
- sniff
- sniffle
- snore
- snort
- snuff
- snuffle
- sob
- sound a tattoo
- spatter
- speak
- speak incoherently
- speech
- spit
- splash
- splatter
- sputter
- squash
- squelch
- squish
- staccato
- sternutation
- stertor
- storm
- susurrate
- swagger
- swashbuckle
- swashbucklery
- swish
- tat-tat
- tattoo
- throb
- throbbing
- thrum
- thump
- thumping
- tom-tom
- vapor
- wave
- waver
- wheeze
- whish
- whisper
- whistle
- whistling
- white noise
- whiz
- whoosh
- zip
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