Crossword-Solution: SPUTTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sputter | v. i. | To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. |
| Sputter | v. i. | To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. |
| Sputter | v. i. | To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. |
| Sputter | v. t. | To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech. |
| Sputter | n. | Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPUTTER | anagram | PUTTERS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPUTTER (5)
She knew, however, how to make a fire; so that after she had laid the logs, Eugenia, who was terribly bored, found a quarter of an hour’s entertainment in sitting and watching them blaze and sputter.
Shiverin' up to the sandbags, With a hicicle 'stead of a spine, Don't it seem funny the things you think 'Ere in the firin' line: _(WHEE! WHUT! ZIZ! ZUT! LORD! 'OW THE BULLETS WHINE!)_ Hunkerin' down when a star-shell Cracks in a sputter of light, You can jaw to yer soul by the sandbags Most any old time o' night.
And then, suddenly, I was watching the green candle sputter, and out of the stillness came a cry--the sereno calling the hour of the night.
And when the bird flew to him, or the tree bowed to him for pure love’s sake (like everything else on my Hill), he’d shout, “Robin! Look--see! Look, see, Robin!” and sputter out some spell or other that they had taught him, all wrong end first, till I hadn’t the heart to tell him it was his own dear self and not the words that worked the wonder.
With purrs like a cat they all giggle and chat, Now spreading their fans, and now holding them flat; A fan by its play whispers, “Go now!” or “Stay!” “I hate you!” “I love you!”--a fan can say that! Beneath a dwarf tree, here and there, two or three Squat coolies are sipping small cups of green tea; They sputter, and leer, and cry out, and appear Like bad little chessmen gone off on a spree.
Quotes with SPUTTER (3)
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy... walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual." But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The de…
we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we arean unwantedburningas we sizzle and fryto the bonethe coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneathus andabove the sky is an open hand andthe words of wise men are uselessit's not a nice world, a nice world it's not ...
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1946–2021).