Sputter

Definition: Sputter

Sputter

Noun

1. The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire".

2. An utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage).

Verb

1. Make an explosive sound.

2. Cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed: "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust".

3. Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.

4. Utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage.

5. Spit up in an explosive manner.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sputter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Note: Sputter \Sput"ter\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Sputtered; Sputtering.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Sputter

Discontinuity

Verb: be discontinuous; Adjective: alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and start, hesitate.

Ejection

Disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber; eructate; drool.

River

Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress).

Stammering

Mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay.

Crosswords: Sputter

Books

• Charlie McTwiddle and the Wobbly-Wheeled Sputter Putter Popper (reference)

• Handbook of Sputter Deposition (reference)

• Pvd for Microelectronics: Sputter Deposition Applied to Semiconductor Manufacturing (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "sputter": sputter ion pump. Additional references.

Beginning with "sputter": sputter-ion.

Albanian

spërkë (plash, spatter, splatter, spot, spray), zhurmë (ado, bang, blatancy, bobbery, Chirm, clamor, clamour, din, hoopla, jangle, noise, noisiness, racket, smash, sound, to-do, tumult, uproar), të folur e palidhur, cikra. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرقع (crack, crackle, crepitate, explode, pop, pop up, snap, squib, torpedo), ‏غمغم (buzz, mumble, splutter, throat), ‏سعل سعالا خفيفا, ‏طقطقة (clack, click, crackle, crackling, patter, pinking, plink, rap, slap), ‏طقطق (click, crack, crackle, patter, pitter patter, squeak), ‏رش اللعاب حين يتكلم, ‏بصق (expectorate, shell out, spit, spitting, splutter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

цвъртя (chirp, chirr, chirrup, peep, sizzle, stridulate), цвъртене (chirp, chirr, peep, sizzle, splutter, stridulate, twitter), ломотя (gabble, jabber, splatter), ломотене (gabble, splatter, splutter), пръскам слюнки, пръщя (sizzle), дърдорене (babble, burble, cackle, gab, gabble, jaw, patter, yap). (various references)

Chinese 

飞溅 (splash, splashed, splashing, Sputtered, sputtering). (various references)

Czech

vynechávat (falter), prskot, prskat (hiss, sizzle, spatter, spit, splutter), drmolit (gabble, gibber, splatter), škvařit. (various references)

Danish

sprutte, brænde med støj, blafre. (various references)

Dutch

pruttelen (simmer). (various references)

Farsi 

تندومغشوش سخن گفتن , تف پراندن , بیرون انداختن (Bounce, Eject, Excrete, Expel), باخشم سخن گفتن , باخشم اداکردن . (various references)

Finnish

käristä (sizzle). (various references)

French

toussoter, toussotement, postillonner (splutter), crachoter (splutter), crépitement (spitting, sputtering), bredouiller (splutter), brûler en crépitant, bafouiller (splutter). (various references)

German

stottern (kick, splutter, stammer, stutter, stutterer), spritzen (bespatter, dabble, gush, hose, inject, pipe, slosh, spatter, spit, splash, splash up, spout, spray, sprinkle, spurt, spurt out, squirt, syringe, syringes), sich ereifern, zischen (barrack, bomb, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frizzle, hiss, howl, roar, sibilance, sizzle, splutter, swish, to fizzle, to frizzle, to hiss, to sizzle, whiz, whizz, zing, zip), mit Geraeusch brennen, flackernd brennen, brutzeln (frizzle, sizzle). (various references)

Greek 

σαλιάρισμα (splutter), σαλιαρίζω (drivel, drool, slaver, smooch, splutter), εκπτύω, απόπτυση, τσιρίζω (fizz, splutter, stridulate). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלמל (babble, buzz, chatter, mumble, murmur, mutter, splutter, stammer), לירוק (expectorate, spit), ל�"תיז (ricochet, slosh, spatter, splatter, spray), ל�"שמיע קול יריק�", פצפוץ, �"תז�" (cutting off, spatter, splash, splutter, sprinkling), �'מ�'ום (hesitation, splutter, stammer, stammering, stutter). (various references)

Hungarian

köpködő beszéd, hadaró beszéd, hadarás (gabble, jabber, slur, sputtering). (various references)

Italian

sputacchiare (spit, splutter), farfugliare (babble, gabble, gibber, mumble, murmur, slur, splutter), bruciare con crepitio, biasciare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

燻ぶる (to smoke, to smoulder, to sputter), 燻る (to smoke, to smoulder, to sputter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くすぶる (to smoke, to smoulder, to sputter), いぶる (to smoke, to smoulder, to sputter). (various references)

Manx

spreih (issue, issue of gas, spatter, splash, spray, sprinkle, spurt). (various references)

Pig Latin

utterspay

Portuguese

falar precipitadamente (gabble, splutter), falar cuspindo, falar atabalhoadamente (jabber, splutter), crepitar (crepitate, crisp, decrepitate, fizz, rattle, snap, splutter), arranhar (clapperclaw, claw, dodder, gall, graze, rase, raze, scrabble, scrape, scratch, splutter, strum, thrum, twang), arder crepitando. (various references)

Romanian

stropire (aspersion, splash), stropi (asperse, beddable, besmear, besmirch, dabble, damp, dash, drop, irrigate, perfuse, smear, smirch, sparge, spatter, speck, splash, splatter, splutter, spray, sprinkle, squirt, water), sfârâi (buzz, chirp, hum, roar, sizzle), scuipare (spit), scuipa (expectorate, gob, spew, spit), vorbi repede (jabber), trosniturã a lemnelor în foc, cuvinte rostite în grabã, bolborosi (babble, bubble, falter out, gabble, gibber, gobble, haw, mutter, stammer), bâlbâi (splutter, stammer, stutter), încurca (complicate, confound, confuse, cumber, discomfit, embrangle, embroil, entangle, floor, foul, gravel, hamper, hash, hinder, intertangle, involve, jumble, maze, medley, muddle, nonplus, perplex, pile up, pose, put out, puzzle, restrain, shuffle, stump, tangle, trouble), împroşcare (splash), împroşca (bespatter, dash, insult, pepper, spatter, splash, splatter). (various references)

Russian 

шипение (fizz, hiss, hissing, sibilance, sizzle, splutter), бессвязная речь (rave, splutter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pucketanje (crackle, crackling), puckanje (snap). (various references)

Spanish

quemar crepitando, farfulla (babble, babbling, jabber, mutter, splutter), chisporroteo (sizzling, splutter). (various references)

Swedish

spotta fram (jerk out, rattle off), fräsa (fizz, fizzle, frizzle, Fry, hiss, mill, spit, splutter). (various references)

Thai

เสียง�"ังปะทุเป็นพักๆ, พู�"ละล่ำละลัก, สิ่งที่สำลักออกมา, ถ่มน้ำลาย (flob), การพู�"ละล่ำละลัก, �"ังกึกๆ กักๆ. (various references)

Turkish

sıçramak (bounce, bound, buck, capriole, cavort, gambol, hop, jerk, jink, jump, leap, leap up, skip, skitter, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, spring, squirt, start up, take off, vault), yağ sıçratmak, tükürerek konuşmak, mürekkep akıtmak (splutter), konuşurken tükürükler saçmak (splutter), konuşurken tükürükler saçma (splutter), cızırtı (cross talk, sizzle, splutter, strays, surface nose), cızırdamak (scratch, sizzle, spit, splutter), boğulmak (be drowned, choke, get drowned, smother, splutter, stifle, suffocate), çabuk ve anlaşılmaz konuşmak (jabber, splutter), çabuk ve anlaşılmaz konuşma, çıtırtı (click, crackle, crunch, scrunch, splutter). (various references)

Turkmen 

jazyrdamak (hiss). (various references)

Ukrainian

шум (ado, alarm, bobbery, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, clutter, hoity toity, hubbub, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, oration, pother, racket, racquet, row, ruction, sound, tumult, uproar), белькотання (babble). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thổi phù phù sự nói lắp bắp (splutter), sự thổi phì phì (splutter). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sputter": sputtered, sputterer, sputterers, sputtering, sputters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sputter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scutter, seuter, smutter, snutter, spattery, spette, Spiteri, sptter, spudder, spurter, sputtern, suter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: putters.

-1 letter: erupts, purest, putter, truest, utters.

-2 letters: erupt, prest, purse, putts, setup, sprue, spurt, strep, strut, stupe, sturt, super, trets, trues, trust, turps, upset, utter.

-3 letters: erst, pert, pest, pets, pure, purs, puts, putt, reps, rest, rets, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, sept, sett, spue, spur, step, stet, suer, suet, supe, sure, test, tets, tret.

+1 letter: puttiers, splutter, sputters, strumpet, trumpets, turpeths, upsetter, upstater.

+2 letters: abruptest, proustite, putterers, splutters, spluttery, sputtered, sputterer, strumpets, superette, upsetters, upstarted, upstaters.

+3 letters: buttercups, corruptest, interrupts, pirouettes, portentous, pothunters, prostitute, proustites, putrescent, spluttered, splutterer, sputterers, sputtering, superettes, superstate, supertight, trumpeters, turpitudes, waterspout.

+4 letters: computerist, counterstep, countertops, guttersnipe, outsprinted, outstripped, parturients, perpetuates, petrolatums, pituitaries, platterfuls, plattersful, postpuberty, pretentious, prostituted, prostitutes, putridities, repetitious, reputations, splutterers, spluttering, superfatted, supernatant, superstates, superstrata, suprematist, trusteeship, turpentines, vituperates, waterspouts.