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.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
- intransitive verb. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
- intransitive verb. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
- transitive 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.
- noun. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
- noun. an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
- noun. the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
"he heard a spatter of gunfire"
- verb. spit up in an explosive manner
- verb. cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
"The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust"
- verb. utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- verb. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- verb. make an explosive sound
"sputtering engines"
Synonyms
splutter, spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputtering, clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sputter:
Common word forms
sputters, sputtered, sputterer, sputtering
Words from these letters
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