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Verb: sputter  spú-tu(r)
  1. Make a soft explosive or spitting sound
    "sputtering engines"
     
  2. Utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
    - splutter
     
  3. Spit up in an explosive manner
    - splutter, spit out
     
  4. Cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
    "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust"
Noun: sputter  spú-tu(r)
  1. The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
    "he heard a sputter of gunfire";
    - spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering
     
  2. An utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
    - splutter

Derived forms: sputtered, sputters, sputtering

Type of: alter, change, cough out, cough up, emit, expectorate, let loose, let out, modify, noise, pop, spit out, spit up, utter, utterance, vocalization

Encyclopedia: Sputter