Overview of noun sputter

The noun sputter has 2 senses

• spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering -- (the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire")


• sputter, splutter -- (an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage))

Overview of verb sputter

The verb sputter has 5 senses

• sputter -- (make an explosive sound; "sputtering engines")


• sputter -- (cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed; "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust")


• clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter -- (climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling)


• sputter, splutter -- (utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage)


• splutter, sputter, spit out -- (spit up in an explosive manner)