Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - sputter
Sputter
sputter
v. & n. --v. 1 intr. emit spitting sounds, esp. when being heated. 2 intr. (often foll. by at) speak in a hurried or vehement fashion. 3 tr. emit with a spitting sound. 4 tr. speak or utter (words, threats, a language, etc.) rapidly or incoherently. 5 tr. Physics deposit (metal) by using fast ions etc. to eject particles of it from a target. --n. a sputtering sound, esp. sputtering speech. Derivatives sputterer n. Etymology: Du. sputteren (imit.)
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I. verb Etymology: akin to Dutch ~en to ~ Date: 1598 transitive verb to spit or squirt from the mouth with explosive sounds, to utter hastily or explosively in confusion or excitement , to dislodge (atoms) from the surface of a material by collision with high energy particles, intransitive verb to spit or squirt particles of food or saliva noisily from the mouth, to speak explosively or confusedly in anger or excitement, to make explosive popping sounds, ~er noun II. noun Date: 1673 confused and excited speech or discussion, the act or sound of ~ing ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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