splutter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is imitative. The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: splutters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: splutters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spluttering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spluttered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spluttered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: splutter
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: splutter
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: spluttered
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: splutter
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: splutterest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: spluttered
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: splutteredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: splutters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spluttereth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: spluttered
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: splutter
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: spluttered
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: splutter
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: spluttered
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: splutter
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: spluttering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spluttered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a splutter of water from a pipe
[He] broke down a slap, as he called it, in a dry stone fence, and lugged the unresisting animal [a horse] through the breach, about a rood of the simple masonry giving way in the splutter with which he passed.
As certain liquors, confined in casks too cramped in their dimensions, will ferment, and fret, and chafe in their imprisonment, so the spiritual essence or soul of Mr. Tappertit would sometimes fume within that precious cask, his body, until, with great foam and froth and splutter, it would force a vent, and carry all before it.
There was a flicker of matches as they were applied to the fuses, and then a splutter of sparks. An instant later it seemed as if the whole heavens had been lighted up.
gloss: A forceful choking or spitting sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A noisy commotion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: But party carries every thing nowadays, and what a splutter have I heard about the wit of that saying, repeated with admiration about a hundred times in half an hour.
[M]y ways of out-of-the-wayness were by no means quiet, but perpetually firing up under their feet in little splutters and spitfires of the most appalling heresy; […]
gloss: A disagreement or dispute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
gloss: Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: a splutter of rage from the old man
gloss: To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: There has been much spluttering about the prince’s use of ‘Americanisms’ in a letter to Emmanuel Macron, but the truth is more complicated[.]
gloss: Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Alas, for the expectations of man! His hopes are like the fruits of that melancholy shore, where death appears to live and life to die. He biteth, and spluttereth forth the unsavoury and abominable deception.
gloss: Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [H]e at once stepped into the stationer's shop, and requested to be served with a sheet of the best gilt-edged letter-paper, and a hard-nibbed pen which could be warranted not to splutter.
You see if my pen doesn't splutter, Polly, the moment I address Richard Paulette.
The log on the fire spluttered and sent a cloud of sparks up the chimney, and shadows of the bell-ringers started up on the walls and disappeared in the intricacies of the roof.
I grieve for lack of wit and store of words to tell the doings patly, for my pen halteth and spluttereth sadly; but I doubt if even a pen from a quill of the Raven could limn them suitably.
The old-fashioned pen spluttered and scratched as he wrote.
gloss: Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower-pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up around my father's legs.
gloss: To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: So you may see Jobson on such occasions, […] puffing, strutting, and spluttering, to get the justice put in motion, […]
gloss: Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: If thou splutterest so, thou wilt drop out thy teeth; that is, if they be thine, which I for one doubt!
He was in such a rage that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth. He could not even swear. He could only splutter.
gloss: To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Manchester City, Liverpool, Bolton and Manchester United come next for Wolves in the Premier League but [Mick] McCarthy's men will fear no one after beating Chelsea for the first time in 18 years, while [Carlo] Ancelotti has much to ponder as his players continue to splutter.
Derived words: splutterer
spluttering
splutteringly
spluttery
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: sopertaa
lang: Finnish
word: sönköttää
lang: Finnish
word: änkyttää
lang: Finnish
word: pärskyttää
lang: Finnish
word: pärskiä