Definitions for sputtering

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sputtering sput·ter·ing

Spelling: [spuht-er-ing]

IPA: /ˈspʌt ər ɪŋ/

Sputtering is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 730 anagrams from letters in sputtering (eginprsttu).

Definitions for sputtering

noun

1. Engineering, Electronics. a process that uses ions of an inert gas to dislodge atoms from the surface of a crystalline material, the atoms then being electrically deposited to form an extremely thin coating on a glass, metal, plastic, or other surface.
2. the act or sound of sputtering.
3. explosive, incoherent utterance.
4. matter ejected in sputtering.

verb (used with object)

1. to emit (anything) forcibly and in small particles, as if by spitting:
2. to eject (saliva, food, etc.) in small particles explosively and involuntarily, as in excitement.
3. to utter explosively and incoherently.

verb (used without object)

1. to make explosive popping or sizzling sounds.
2. to emit particles, sparks, etc., forcibly or explosively, especially accompanied by sputtering sounds.
3. to eject particles of saliva, food, etc., from the mouth in a light spray, as when speaking angrily or excitedly.
4. to utter or spit out words or sounds explosively or incoherently, as when angry or flustered.

Origin of sputtering

First recorded in 1900-05; sputter + -ing¹

Examples for sputtering

When he finally delivered his five lines, “my mouth had frozen, so this sputtering sort of came out,” Tambor says.

He woke with a start and looked into the sputtering glare of a torch.

If you hear a sizzling and sputtering in your electric-light socket, what does it mean?

sputtering, I manage a few “hut-hut-huts” with the other students.

But by next spring or summer, it may be someone else sputtering for excuses.

His face was afire with the drink that he had taken, and his throat was guggling and sputtering.

The whole face of the sea around the dock broke into a sort of sputtering.

In 2008, the economy was already eight months into a deep recession; in 2011, the recovery was sputtering along in very low gear.

sputtering and choking for breath, Rawson came to the surface.

Even while sputtering out the most eye-rolling lines about his new love for the Kardashian family, he was remarkably pleasant.