The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splutter \Splut"ter\ (spl[u^]t"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Spluttered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Spluttering.]
To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter. [Colloq.]
--Carleton.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who splutters. vb. (present participle of splutter English)
WordNet
adj. emitting or making sporadic spitting or popping sounds; "the sputtering engine"; "spluttering electric arcs" [syn: sputtering]
Usage examples of "spluttering".
Barney, red in the face and spluttering, had suddenly thumped his fist on the floor, caught his breath trying to say something, and collapsed into a thunderous fit of coughing.
Withers surfaced again, coughing and spluttering, and Barney hesitated, the grail still held over his head.
Her burgeoning tirade dwindled to a spluttering search for further epithets.
Three meters to his left, he saw the prince and a spluttering, thrashing Urmi.
Morris Marina drivers drove off in their identically spluttering cars.
Other Morenians shifted on the grass, glancing from the silent priestess to their king to the spluttering Holy Father.
Most of them were coughing and spluttering and one of them clutched his abdomen as though he had a ruptured appendix.
Mosquitoes and a variety of other flying insects had managed to find a torn corner in the rusty screen door, and they circled around the spluttering yellow flame.
I came up spluttering, gasping for air, my mouth and throat, my nose, my ears, my eyes filled with choking water.