Splutter
['splʌtə] or ['splʌtɚ]
Definition
(v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.
(n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Colloquial.] Bustle, stir.
v. n. [Colloquial.] Stammer (through haste).
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Definition
v.i. to eject drops of saliva while speaking: to scatter ink upon a paper as a bad pen.—n. bustle.—n. Splutt′erer one who splutters.
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Examples
- At four o'clock I heard a sudden splutter of the pen, indicative of the flourish with which he signed his name. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His voice deserted him; he coughed and spluttered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then she would take up another pen, and begin to write, and find that it spluttered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And then rolled and spluttered more than ever. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Twice more in the darkness the bell at the great gate sounded, and the irruption was repeated, and the grindstone whirled and spluttered. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The papers he had retired to read did not tell him much in fact; but they plunged him into an atmosphere in which he choked and spluttered. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The pen spluttered again, and the flourish was attached to his signature. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- No one answered; but, from within the chambers, there proceeded a continuous spluttering sound of a highly singular and unintelligible nature. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Is it a kind of a spluttering somewhere? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One evening there came a sudden flash of fire and a spluttering, sizzling noise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You're not in a fit state to come here, if you can't come here without spluttering like a bad pen. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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