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Raresputter
The correct spelling is sputter.
How to pronounce sputter
noun
IPA: /ˈspʌtɚ/
Say it like: Spu-tte-r
The correct spelling is sputter. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
- 2.Confused and hasty speech.
verb
- 1.To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
- 2.To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
- 3.To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
- 4.To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
- 5.To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
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