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SPUTTER

1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in little, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to say so rapidly as to emit saliva. "They could neither of them say their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one other, like two roasting apples." (Congreve) 3. To throw out anything, as few jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. "Like the green tree . . . Sputtering in the flame." (Dryden) Origin: From the root of spout or spit to eject from the mputh. Cf. Splutter. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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