SPUTTER


Meaning of SPUTTER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈspʌtə ]

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. øøsputterer n. [Du. sputteren (imit.)]

English main colloquial, spoken dictionary.      Английский основной разговорный словарь.