Dictionary Entry
sputter
sputter is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
- 2intransitive verb
To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
- 3intransitive verb
To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
- 4transitive verb
To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
- 5noun
Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
- 6noun
an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
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- 7noun
the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
"he heard a spatter of gunfire"
- 8verb
spit up in an explosive manner
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- 9verb
cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
"The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust"
- 10verb
utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
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- 11verb
climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- 12verb
make an explosive sound
"sputtering engines"
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