Definition of Spluttering

1. Verb. (present participle of splutter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spluttering

1. splutter [v] - See also: splutter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spluttering

splurger
splurgers
splurges
splurgier
splurgiest
splurging
splurgy
splurt
splurted
splurting
splurts
splutter
spluttered
splutterer
splutterers
spluttering
splutteringly
splutters
spluttery
spn
spo
spoak
spod
spoddy
spodes
spodic
spodic horizon
spodiosite
spodium
spodiums

Literary usage of Spluttering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"These words seem directly formed by imitation, and are intended to represent the noise made by a mixture of air and liquid shaken together, or spluttering ..."

2. Diseases of the eye and disorders of speech in childhood by Oskar Everbusch, Max Nadoleczny (1914)
"Spluttering may occur on single occasions in the course of lingual development, and in that case cannot be regarded as pathologic, but will be so if it ..."

3. Our Mutual Friend by Charles ( Dickens (1865)
"OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. within the chambers, there proceeded a continuous spluttering sound of a highly singular and unintelligible nature. ..."

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