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Definition of Spluttering
1. splutter [v] - See also: splutter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spluttering
Literary usage of Spluttering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"These words seem directly formed by imitation, and are intended to represent the
noise made by a mixture of air and liquid shaken together, or spluttering ..."
2. Diseases of the eye and disorders of speech in childhood by Oskar Everbusch, Max Nadoleczny (1914)
"spluttering may occur on single occasions in the course of lingual development,
and in that case cannot be regarded as pathologic, but will be so if it ..."
3. Our Mutual Friend by Charles ( Dickens (1865)
"OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. within the chambers, there proceeded a continuous spluttering
sound of a highly singular and unintelligible nature. ..."