Word Meanings - SPUTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell

Additional info about word: SPUTTER

1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. 2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. Congreve. 3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to SPUTTER)

• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• COULD
  Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
• UTTER
  1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer.
• RAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• RAPIDLY
  In a rapid manner.
• INDISTINCTLY
  In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• HASTILY
  1. In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly. 2. Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. We hastily engaged in the war. Swift. 3. Passionately; impatiently. Shak.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• UTTERMOST
  Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton.
• MOUTHED
  1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• SLUTTERY
  The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.