OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 36820

sputter

/ˈspʌtɚ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
farfullar
To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
The child [...] kicked, and crowed, and sputtered, when his mother took him, and put up his little fingers to clutch her hair, and was to her as a young god upon the earth. Nothing…