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sputter
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)
- Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
- Confused and hasty speech.
Verb
sputter (third-person singular simple present sputters, present participle sputtering, simple past and past participle sputtered)
- (intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
- (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.
- 1700, William Congreve, s:The Way of the World
- (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.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
- (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
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spurtle
English
Alternative forms
- spirtle
- spertle (obsolete)
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
spurtle (plural spurtles)
- Either of two Scottish kitchen implements made of wood: a flat one for turning oatcakes, or a stick for stirring porridge.
Etymology 2
spirt +? -le?According to the Poly-Olbion project, coined by poet Michael Drayton in 1606.
Verb
spurtle (third-person singular simple present spurtles, present participle spurtling, simple past and past participle spurtled)
- To spurt, spatter or sputter; to spurt in a scattering manner.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 2 p. 29[1]:
- Upon the head hee lent so violent a stroke,
- That the poore emptie skull, like some thin potsheard broke,
- The braines and mingled blood, were spertled on the wall
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 2 p. 29[1]:
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
- The Poly-Olbion project
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