Usually means: Spoke hastily in choked manner.
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  1. spluttered: Merriam-Webster
  2. spluttered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. spluttered: Vocabulary.com
  4. spluttered: Wordnik
  5. spluttered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. spluttered: Wiktionary
  7. spluttered: Dictionary.com
  8. Spluttered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Spluttered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. spluttered: FreeDictionary.org
  11. spluttered: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (splutter)

noun:  (countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
noun:  (countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  (countable) A noisy commotion.
noun:  (countable) A disagreement or dispute.
noun:  (uncountable) Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
verb:  To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
verb:  (figuratively)
verb:  To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
verb:  Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
verb:  To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
verb:  Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
verb:  To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
verb:  Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
verb:  To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
verb:  To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
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