English Dictionary

splutter

/ˈsplʌtə/

verb

To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter. / To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.

He spluttered out his drink when he heard the unexpected news.

意味（1）

To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.

意味（2）

To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.

意味（3）

(figuratively); Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.

[H]e at once stepped into the stationer's shop, and requested to be served with a sheet of the best gilt-edged letter-paper, and a hard-nibbed pen which could be warranted not to splutter.

意味（4）

Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.

Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower-pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up around my father's legs.

意味（5）

To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.

So you may see Jobson on such occasions, […] puffing, strutting, and spluttering, to get the justice put in motion, […]

意味（6）

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).