Sputter word meaning and definition

[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] cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed; "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust"
[verb] spit up in an explosive manner
[verb] utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
[verb] climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
[verb] make an explosive sound

\Sput"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sputtered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sputtering}.] [From the root of spout or spit to eject from the mputh. Cf. {Splutter}.] 1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. --Congreve. 3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame. --Dryden.
\Sput"ter\, v. t. To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech. In the midst of caresses, and without the last pretend incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations. --Swift.
\Sput"ter\, n. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

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