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Definition of Splutters
1. splutter [v] - See also: splutter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splutters
Literary usage of Splutters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe and More Especially by Charles Mackay (1877)
"One "splutters" who speaks with his mouth full ;—a pen " splutters " when it
catches at an impediment on the paper and scatters the ink otherwise than in ..."
2. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"To-day they find that multitude well under control, with revolt, where it
occasionally splutters forth, random and disorganised and severely discountenanced ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"The Esquimau baby cries for blubber as the American child does for sugar, and
splutters at the first taste of candy as do our own pale infants on their ..."
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