Usually means: Speak hastily with repeated interruptions.
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  1. splutter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. splutter: Merriam-Webster
  3. splutter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. splutter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. splutter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. splutter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Splutter, splutter: Wordnik
  8. splutter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. splutter: Wiktionary
  10. splutter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. splutter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. splutter: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. splutter: Dictionary.com
  14. splutter (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Splutter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. splutter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. splutter: Rhymezone
  18. Splutter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. splutter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. splutter: FreeDictionary.org
  21. splutter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. splutter: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. splutter: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. splutter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. splutter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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