different between sputter vs gurgle

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sp?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Etymology

Probably representing Middle English *sputren, *sputrien, a frequentative form of Middle English sputen (“to spout, vomit”), equivalent to spout +? -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian spüttern (“to inject, spray, splash”), West Frisian sputterje (“to sputter”), Dutch sputteren (“to sputter”), Low German sputtern, spruttern (“to sprinkle”), German sprudeln (“to spout, squirt”). Compare splutter.

Noun

sputter (countable and uncountable, plural sputters)

1. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
2. Confused and hasty speech.

Verb

sputter (third-person singular simple present sputters, present participle sputtering, simple past and past participle sputtered)

1. (intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
   • 1700, William Congreve, s:The Way of the World

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

   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Vindication of Lord Carteret

     In the midst of caresses, and without the least pretended incitement, to sputter out the basest and falsest accusations.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy

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

4. (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
5. (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

Translations

See also

• spit nails

References

• sputter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• putters

English

Etymology

Back formation from Middle English gurguling (“a rumbling in the belly”). Akin to Middle Dutch gorgelen (“to gurgle”), Middle Low German gorgelen (“to gurgle”), German gurgeln (“to gargle”), and perhaps to Latin gurguli? (“throat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.??l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)??l

Verb

gurgle (third-person singular simple present gurgles, present participle gurgling, simple past and past participle gurgled)

1. To flow with a bubbling sound.

   The bath water gurgled down the drain.

   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.

2. To make such a sound.

   The baby gurgled with delight.

Translations

Noun

gurgle (plural gurgles)

1. A gurgling sound.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

Translations

Anagrams

• glurge, lugger

German

Verb

gurgle

1. inflection of gurgeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I