Noun
an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)

Noun
the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire"

Verb
spit up in an explosive manner

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

Verb
utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage

Verb
climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Verb
make an explosive sound; "sputtering engines"

v. i.
To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

v. i.
To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.

v. i.
To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

v. t.
To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.

n.
Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

Sputter

They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.

Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame.

Sputter

In the midst of caresses, and without the last pretend incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations.

Sputter

To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.