Definition of splutter in English:

splutter

verb ˈsplʌtəˈsplədər

[no object]

1Make a series of short explosive spitting or choking sounds.
she coughed and spluttered, tears coursing down her face
Example sentencesExamples
- She began to cough and splutter sickly, the urge to do so appearing quite abruptly.
- I run this by Mrs Webber who splutters for a second.
- It overheated, it clunked, it smoked, stuttered, spluttered and on more than one occasion - blew up.
- But be warned - take a deep breath before you push that button or, like me, you could find yourself gasping and spluttering amid a thick mist of spray.
- The man choked and spluttered, but didn't answer.
- Julia splutters as she swallows the last sip of her wine.
- Kara sipped the one he handed her and spluttered.
- The heater coughed and spluttered loudly and we both laughed nervously, trying to ease the tension.
- I gave a gasping cry and began breathing heavily, then choked and spluttered for his benefit.
- His brother spluttered all the way to the table but to no avail.
- As the Boss choked and spluttered for air he fished in his pocket for something.
- Norwood coughed and spluttered, trying to speak.
- Will I emerge gasping and spluttering, bleary-eyed; or will I learn to hold my breath, to close my eyes?
- At last the tractor began to spit and splutter in protest and Papa and I knew that our efforts had nearly paid off.
- ‘It wasn't much, around seven million,’ she paused as the Inspector choked and spluttered.
- Vic looked at them as a sooty Tom coughed and spluttered.
- Trying to scramble back onto the bank all grace aside, she kicked and spluttered.
- You will find it splutters around, sometimes spitting spots of fuel from the exhaust, not seeming very impressive.
- Her nostrils flare and she splutters, frothing bubbles from her nose, laying a thick trail of wrong wayed fluid in her wind pipe, but holding in the cough; drinking, and putting everything else on hold.
- Matt spluttered, letting a small bit of his beer spill from his mouth, ‘I thought he took out the cameras!’
Synonyms
jabber, babble, prattle, rattle, blabber, gibber, cackle, blab, drivel, twitter
1. 1.1reporting verb Say something rapidly, indistinctly, and with a spitting sound, as a result of anger, embarrassment, or another strong emotion.
  with object he began to splutter excuses
  with direct speech ‘How dare you?’ she spluttered
  Example sentencesExamples
  Patrick spluttered, ‘You, you had no right to trick me like this.’
  The lips of the sentinel quivered as he spluttered out the words: ‘I - apologise, my Lord!’
  I spluttered, ‘Well, if it bothers you, Jacquiline, I won't go with her.’
  ‘Kara - Kara Sarris,’ he finally spluttered the words out.
  ‘Oh God,’ I spluttered, as I leapt to my feet and rushed to the bathroom.
  It must have been too much for him that he could only splutter, ‘I don't believe it!
  That didn't matter, though, as the infuriated lord proceeded to splutter his way through a listing of the problems.
  ‘You,’ he splutters, turning red in the face, ‘you've drugged her!’
  ‘It's absolutely scandalous,’ he splutters.
  ‘There are tragic things that happen all over the world’, he spluttered.
2. 1.2with object Spit (something) out from one's mouth noisily and in small splashes.
  spluttering brackish water, he struggled to regain his feet
  Example sentencesExamples
  He splutters water as he tries to inhale more air.
  Maybe it's the joy of playing it to friends who pride themselves on liking extreme music, and watching them splutter tea down their fronts.
  Synonyms
  snap, say angrily, hiss, rasp

noun ˈsplʌtəˈsplədər

A short explosive spitting or choking noise.
the engine gave one final splutter and died
a splutter of laughter
Example sentencesExamples
- Steve and Andy stand in front of us and collapse into ridiculous splutters.
- A spindly old man produced a bagpipe and blew it in competition with the flutist, beginning in wild, warlike tones and ending with an ignominious splutter and hiss.
- All this, including conversations à trois at cross-purposes, with three-way splutters, is supposed to make the play more interesting but merely makes it all the more annoying.
- As it turned out, the opening 45 minutes of the film are by far the most entertaining; the coughs and splutters come later.
- With a final awkward splutter, the flame barrier vanished.
- She nodded, understanding, ignoring Aaron's splutters of indignation.
- They wait for what seems an eternity in the waiting area amongst a baby's cries, coughs, splutters and a awkward, piercing, silence.
- He couldn't help but think it strange that she greeted him in a splutter.
- Each splutter sprayed scarlet beads over her ghost-white frame, and over Raven when Nelly snatched at her shoulders in an attempt to steady herself.
- No sobs or splutters or hiccoughs spilled from her trembling lip, although, her lip did tremble.
- Beth started the old car and after and few coughs, and splutters, it began to move.
- The words came out in short excited little splutters.
- I find myself increasingly irritated by the occasional coughs and splutters of the audience.

Derivatives

splutterer

noun ˈsplʌtərəˈspləd(ə)rər

Anyway, at least you were lucky and could have a good chuckle at all the wheezers and splutterers so I bet that made you feel on the side of the angels.
Example sentencesExamples
- If you think I live in an ivory tower in Canada you are a very bad judge of character and to label me as an emotively outraged splutterer is to show the depth of ignorance that you possess.
- A couple of different incoherent splutterers have implied that I delete all my hostile critics and leave only the cheering section, which as anyone who has ever looked at the comments knows is ridiculous.
- Ian and his companions stood their ground, pointed out that the splutterer could only request a withdrawal, and suggested he call the polis should arbitration be required.
- So who else is sick of the coughers and splutterers and sweet wrapper rustlers who spoil concerts?

spluttering

adjectiveˈsplʌt(ə)rɪŋˈsplədərɪŋ

Making or characterized by explosive spitting or choking noises.
a spluttering old diesel generator
Example sentencesExamples
- he flew into a spluttering rage
- The traditional marches played (somewhat out of tune) by the village band, the singing of a family around a spluttering harmonium, the medleys of patriotic melodies offered on festive occasions - all of these were to enter into his music.
- Both are power-hungry cowards, Alberich a spluttering bully, Wotan a silent observer.
- With film-soundtrack strings, spluttering trumpets and a creeping, unsettling inertia, it also happens to be their most musically adventurous record to date.

splutteringly

adverb

It seemed a long way to a seven-year-old but it was only fifteen yards; besides you had a minder on either side of you in case you lost your nerve and sank splutteringly.
Example sentencesExamples
- He coughed splutteringly as he was just getting over a nasty case of the sniffles.
- At half past twelve we dropped anchor a mile and a half from the fort, which the Prince Regent saluted splutteringly with six shots.

Origin

Late 17th century: imitative; compare with sputter.

Rhymes

abutter, aflutter, butter, Calcutta, clutter, constructor, cutter, declutter, flutter, gutter, mutter, nutter, scutter, shutter, sputter, strutter, stutter, utter

Definition of splutter in US English:

splutter

verbˈsplədərˈsplədər

[no object]

1Make a series of short explosive spitting or choking sounds.
she coughed and spluttered, tears coursing down her face
Example sentencesExamples
- But be warned - take a deep breath before you push that button or, like me, you could find yourself gasping and spluttering amid a thick mist of spray.
- Kara sipped the one he handed her and spluttered.
- Norwood coughed and spluttered, trying to speak.
- Vic looked at them as a sooty Tom coughed and spluttered.
- Trying to scramble back onto the bank all grace aside, she kicked and spluttered.
- You will find it splutters around, sometimes spitting spots of fuel from the exhaust, not seeming very impressive.
- ‘It wasn't much, around seven million,’ she paused as the Inspector choked and spluttered.
- She began to cough and splutter sickly, the urge to do so appearing quite abruptly.
- I run this by Mrs Webber who splutters for a second.
- Will I emerge gasping and spluttering, bleary-eyed; or will I learn to hold my breath, to close my eyes?
- As the Boss choked and spluttered for air he fished in his pocket for something.
- I gave a gasping cry and began breathing heavily, then choked and spluttered for his benefit.
- Julia splutters as she swallows the last sip of her wine.
- At last the tractor began to spit and splutter in protest and Papa and I knew that our efforts had nearly paid off.
- The man choked and spluttered, but didn't answer.
- Matt spluttered, letting a small bit of his beer spill from his mouth, ‘I thought he took out the cameras!’
- His brother spluttered all the way to the table but to no avail.
- Her nostrils flare and she splutters, frothing bubbles from her nose, laying a thick trail of wrong wayed fluid in her wind pipe, but holding in the cough; drinking, and putting everything else on hold.
- It overheated, it clunked, it smoked, stuttered, spluttered and on more than one occasion - blew up.
- The heater coughed and spluttered loudly and we both laughed nervously, trying to ease the tension.
Synonyms
jabber, babble, prattle, rattle, blabber, gibber, cackle, blab, drivel, twitter
1. 1.1reporting verb Say something rapidly, indistinctly, and with a spitting sound, as a result of anger, embarrassment, or another strong emotion.
  with object he began to splutter excuses
  with direct speech “How dare you?” she spluttered
  Example sentencesExamples
  The lips of the sentinel quivered as he spluttered out the words: ‘I - apologise, my Lord!’
  Patrick spluttered, ‘You, you had no right to trick me like this.’
  ‘It's absolutely scandalous,’ he splutters.
  It must have been too much for him that he could only splutter, ‘I don't believe it!
  ‘Oh God,’ I spluttered, as I leapt to my feet and rushed to the bathroom.
  ‘Kara - Kara Sarris,’ he finally spluttered the words out.
  ‘There are tragic things that happen all over the world’, he spluttered.
  That didn't matter, though, as the infuriated lord proceeded to splutter his way through a listing of the problems.
  ‘You,’ he splutters, turning red in the face, ‘you've drugged her!’
  I spluttered, ‘Well, if it bothers you, Jacquiline, I won't go with her.’
2. 1.2with object Spit (something) out from one's mouth noisily and in small splashes.
  spluttering brackish water, he struggled to regain his feet
  Example sentencesExamples
  He splutters water as he tries to inhale more air.
  Maybe it's the joy of playing it to friends who pride themselves on liking extreme music, and watching them splutter tea down their fronts.
  Synonyms
  snap, say angrily, hiss, rasp

nounˈsplədərˈsplədər

A short explosive spitting or choking noise.
Example sentencesExamples
- All this, including conversations à trois at cross-purposes, with three-way splutters, is supposed to make the play more interesting but merely makes it all the more annoying.
- He couldn't help but think it strange that she greeted him in a splutter.
- Each splutter sprayed scarlet beads over her ghost-white frame, and over Raven when Nelly snatched at her shoulders in an attempt to steady herself.
- With a final awkward splutter, the flame barrier vanished.
- They wait for what seems an eternity in the waiting area amongst a baby's cries, coughs, splutters and a awkward, piercing, silence.
- The words came out in short excited little splutters.
- A spindly old man produced a bagpipe and blew it in competition with the flutist, beginning in wild, warlike tones and ending with an ignominious splutter and hiss.
- I find myself increasingly irritated by the occasional coughs and splutters of the audience.
- As it turned out, the opening 45 minutes of the film are by far the most entertaining; the coughs and splutters come later.
- Steve and Andy stand in front of us and collapse into ridiculous splutters.
- She nodded, understanding, ignoring Aaron's splutters of indignation.
- No sobs or splutters or hiccoughs spilled from her trembling lip, although, her lip did tremble.
- Beth started the old car and after and few coughs, and splutters, it began to move.

Origin

Late 17th century: imitative; compare with sputter.

单词	splutter
释义	Definition of splutter in English: splutter verb ˈsplʌtəˈsplədər [no object] 1Make a series of short explosive spitting or choking sounds. she coughed and spluttered, tears coursing down her face Example sentencesExamples She began to cough and splutter sickly, the urge to do so appearing quite abruptly. I run this by Mrs Webber who splutters for a second. It overheated, it clunked, it smoked, stuttered, spluttered and on more than one occasion - blew up. But be warned - take a deep breath before you push that button or, like me, you could find yourself gasping and spluttering amid a thick mist of spray. The man choked and spluttered, but didn't answer. Julia splutters as she swallows the last sip of her wine. Kara sipped the one he handed her and spluttered. The heater coughed and spluttered loudly and we both laughed nervously, trying to ease the tension. I gave a gasping cry and began breathing heavily, then choked and spluttered for his benefit. His brother spluttered all the way to the table but to no avail. As the Boss choked and spluttered for air he fished in his pocket for something. Norwood coughed and spluttered, trying to speak. Will I emerge gasping and spluttering, bleary-eyed; or will I learn to hold my breath, to close my eyes? At last the tractor began to spit and splutter in protest and Papa and I knew that our efforts had nearly paid off. ‘It wasn't much, around seven million,’ she paused as the Inspector choked and spluttered. Vic looked at them as a sooty Tom coughed and spluttered. Trying to scramble back onto the bank all grace aside, she kicked and spluttered. You will find it splutters around, sometimes spitting spots of fuel from the exhaust, not seeming very impressive. Her nostrils flare and she splutters, frothing bubbles from her nose, laying a thick trail of wrong wayed fluid in her wind pipe, but holding in the cough; drinking, and putting everything else on hold. Matt spluttered, letting a small bit of his beer spill from his mouth, ‘I thought he took out the cameras!’ Synonyms jabber, babble, prattle, rattle, blabber, gibber, cackle, blab, drivel, twitter 1.1reporting verb Say something rapidly, indistinctly, and with a spitting sound, as a result of anger, embarrassment, or another strong emotion. with object he began to splutter excuses with direct speech ‘How dare you?’ she spluttered Example sentencesExamples Patrick spluttered, ‘You, you had no right to trick me like this.’ The lips of the sentinel quivered as he spluttered out the words: ‘I - apologise, my Lord!’ I spluttered, ‘Well, if it bothers you, Jacquiline, I won't go with her.’ ‘Kara - Kara Sarris,’ he finally spluttered the words out. ‘Oh God,’ I spluttered, as I leapt to my feet and rushed to the bathroom. It must have been too much for him that he could only splutter, ‘I don't believe it! That didn't matter, though, as the infuriated lord proceeded to splutter his way through a listing of the problems. ‘You,’ he splutters, turning red in the face, ‘you've drugged her!’ ‘It's absolutely scandalous,’ he splutters. ‘There are tragic things that happen all over the world’, he spluttered. 1.2with object Spit (something) out from one's mouth noisily and in small splashes. spluttering brackish water, he struggled to regain his feet Example sentencesExamples He splutters water as he tries to inhale more air. Maybe it's the joy of playing it to friends who pride themselves on liking extreme music, and watching them splutter tea down their fronts. Synonyms snap, say angrily, hiss, rasp noun ˈsplʌtəˈsplədər A short explosive spitting or choking noise. the engine gave one final splutter and died a splutter of laughter Example sentencesExamples Steve and Andy stand in front of us and collapse into ridiculous splutters. A spindly old man produced a bagpipe and blew it in competition with the flutist, beginning in wild, warlike tones and ending with an ignominious splutter and hiss. All this, including conversations à trois at cross-purposes, with three-way splutters, is supposed to make the play more interesting but merely makes it all the more annoying. As it turned out, the opening 45 minutes of the film are by far the most entertaining; the coughs and splutters come later. With a final awkward splutter, the flame barrier vanished. She nodded, understanding, ignoring Aaron's splutters of indignation. They wait for what seems an eternity in the waiting area amongst a baby's cries, coughs, splutters and a awkward, piercing, silence. He couldn't help but think it strange that she greeted him in a splutter. Each splutter sprayed scarlet beads over her ghost-white frame, and over Raven when Nelly snatched at her shoulders in an attempt to steady herself. No sobs or splutters or hiccoughs spilled from her trembling lip, although, her lip did tremble. Beth started the old car and after and few coughs, and splutters, it began to move. The words came out in short excited little splutters. I find myself increasingly irritated by the occasional coughs and splutters of the audience. Derivatives splutterer noun ˈsplʌtərəˈspləd(ə)rər Anyway, at least you were lucky and could have a good chuckle at all the wheezers and splutterers so I bet that made you feel on the side of the angels. Example sentencesExamples If you think I live in an ivory tower in Canada you are a very bad judge of character and to label me as an emotively outraged splutterer is to show the depth of ignorance that you possess. A couple of different incoherent splutterers have implied that I delete all my hostile critics and leave only the cheering section, which as anyone who has ever looked at the comments knows is ridiculous. Ian and his companions stood their ground, pointed out that the splutterer could only request a withdrawal, and suggested he call the polis should arbitration be required. So who else is sick of the coughers and splutterers and sweet wrapper rustlers who spoil concerts? spluttering adjectiveˈsplʌt(ə)rɪŋˈsplədərɪŋ Making or characterized by explosive spitting or choking noises. a spluttering old diesel generator Example sentencesExamples he flew into a spluttering rage The traditional marches played (somewhat out of tune) by the village band, the singing of a family around a spluttering harmonium, the medleys of patriotic melodies offered on festive occasions - all of these were to enter into his music. Both are power-hungry cowards, Alberich a spluttering bully, Wotan a silent observer. With film-soundtrack strings, spluttering trumpets and a creeping, unsettling inertia, it also happens to be their most musically adventurous record to date. splutteringly adverb It seemed a long way to a seven-year-old but it was only fifteen yards; besides you had a minder on either side of you in case you lost your nerve and sank splutteringly. Example sentencesExamples He coughed splutteringly as he was just getting over a nasty case of the sniffles. At half past twelve we dropped anchor a mile and a half from the fort, which the Prince Regent saluted splutteringly with six shots. Origin Late 17th century: imitative; compare with sputter. Rhymes abutter, aflutter, butter, Calcutta, clutter, constructor, cutter, declutter, flutter, gutter, mutter, nutter, scutter, shutter, sputter, strutter, stutter, utter Definition of splutter in US English: splutter verbˈsplədərˈsplədər [no object] 1Make a series of short explosive spitting or choking sounds. she coughed and spluttered, tears coursing down her face Example sentencesExamples But be warned - take a deep breath before you push that button or, like me, you could find yourself gasping and spluttering amid a thick mist of spray. Kara sipped the one he handed her and spluttered. Norwood coughed and spluttered, trying to speak. Vic looked at them as a sooty Tom coughed and spluttered. Trying to scramble back onto the bank all grace aside, she kicked and spluttered. You will find it splutters around, sometimes spitting spots of fuel from the exhaust, not seeming very impressive. ‘It wasn't much, around seven million,’ she paused as the Inspector choked and spluttered. She began to cough and splutter sickly, the urge to do so appearing quite abruptly. I run this by Mrs Webber who splutters for a second. Will I emerge gasping and spluttering, bleary-eyed; or will I learn to hold my breath, to close my eyes? As the Boss choked and spluttered for air he fished in his pocket for something. I gave a gasping cry and began breathing heavily, then choked and spluttered for his benefit. Julia splutters as she swallows the last sip of her wine. At last the tractor began to spit and splutter in protest and Papa and I knew that our efforts had nearly paid off. The man choked and spluttered, but didn't answer. Matt spluttered, letting a small bit of his beer spill from his mouth, ‘I thought he took out the cameras!’ His brother spluttered all the way to the table but to no avail. Her nostrils flare and she splutters, frothing bubbles from her nose, laying a thick trail of wrong wayed fluid in her wind pipe, but holding in the cough; drinking, and putting everything else on hold. It overheated, it clunked, it smoked, stuttered, spluttered and on more than one occasion - blew up. The heater coughed and spluttered loudly and we both laughed nervously, trying to ease the tension. Synonyms jabber, babble, prattle, rattle, blabber, gibber, cackle, blab, drivel, twitter 1.1reporting verb Say something rapidly, indistinctly, and with a spitting sound, as a result of anger, embarrassment, or another strong emotion. with object he began to splutter excuses with direct speech “How dare you?” she spluttered Example sentencesExamples The lips of the sentinel quivered as he spluttered out the words: ‘I - apologise, my Lord!’ Patrick spluttered, ‘You, you had no right to trick me like this.’ ‘It's absolutely scandalous,’ he splutters. It must have been too much for him that he could only splutter, ‘I don't believe it! ‘Oh God,’ I spluttered, as I leapt to my feet and rushed to the bathroom. ‘Kara - Kara Sarris,’ he finally spluttered the words out. ‘There are tragic things that happen all over the world’, he spluttered. That didn't matter, though, as the infuriated lord proceeded to splutter his way through a listing of the problems. ‘You,’ he splutters, turning red in the face, ‘you've drugged her!’ I spluttered, ‘Well, if it bothers you, Jacquiline, I won't go with her.’ 1.2with object Spit (something) out from one's mouth noisily and in small splashes. spluttering brackish water, he struggled to regain his feet Example sentencesExamples He splutters water as he tries to inhale more air. Maybe it's the joy of playing it to friends who pride themselves on liking extreme music, and watching them splutter tea down their fronts. Synonyms snap, say angrily, hiss, rasp nounˈsplədərˈsplədər A short explosive spitting or choking noise. Example sentencesExamples All this, including conversations à trois at cross-purposes, with three-way splutters, is supposed to make the play more interesting but merely makes it all the more annoying. He couldn't help but think it strange that she greeted him in a splutter. Each splutter sprayed scarlet beads over her ghost-white frame, and over Raven when Nelly snatched at her shoulders in an attempt to steady herself. With a final awkward splutter, the flame barrier vanished. They wait for what seems an eternity in the waiting area amongst a baby's cries, coughs, splutters and a awkward, piercing, silence. The words came out in short excited little splutters. A spindly old man produced a bagpipe and blew it in competition with the flutist, beginning in wild, warlike tones and ending with an ignominious splutter and hiss. I find myself increasingly irritated by the occasional coughs and splutters of the audience. As it turned out, the opening 45 minutes of the film are by far the most entertaining; the coughs and splutters come later. Steve and Andy stand in front of us and collapse into ridiculous splutters. She nodded, understanding, ignoring Aaron's splutters of indignation. No sobs or splutters or hiccoughs spilled from her trembling lip, although, her lip did tremble. Beth started the old car and after and few coughs, and splutters, it began to move. Origin Late 17th century: imitative; compare with sputter.
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