'Sputtering' definitions:
Definition of 'sputtering'
(from WordNet)
noun
The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering]
Definition of 'Sputtering'
From: GCIDE
- Sputter \Sput"ter\ (sp[u^]t"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sputtered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sputtering.] [From the root of spout or spit to eject from the mouth. Cf. Splutter.]
- 1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. [1913 Webster]
- They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. --Congreve. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. [1913 Webster]
- Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sputtering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beating,
- clicking,
- dancing,
- desultory,
- drumming,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- guttering,
- palpitant,
- pounding,
- spattering,
- spluttering,
- sputtery,
- staccato,
- throbbing,
- thrumming,
- thumping,
- ticking,
- unsteady,
- wavering,
- wavery