splutter
pronunciation
How to pronounce splutter in British English:
UK [ˈsplʌtə(r)]
How to pronounce splutter in American English:
US [ˈsplʌtər]
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- Noun:
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
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- Verb:
- utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- spit up in an explosive manner
Word Origin
- splutter (n.)
- 1670s, perhaps a variant of sputter, intensified by the consonant cluster of splash, splatter, etc.
- splutter (v.)
- 1728, from splutter (n.). Related: Spluttered; spluttering.
Example
- 1. The car started with a splutter .
- 2. Doctors have better things to do than telephone the health department with every cough and splutter .
- 3. In postcolonial india and china , where billions are now being coerced into a transition from agrarian to urban industrial economies , this cycle had barely begun before it began to splutter .
- 4. The engine gave a splutter and went dead .
- 5. She dive into the water and come up cough and splutter .