sputter

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• General-American: /ˈspʌtɚ/
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• rhymes with -ʌtə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S P AH1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Probably representing Middle English *sputren, *sputrien, a frequentative form of Middle English sputen (“to spout, vomit”), equivalent to spout + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian spüttern (“to inject, spray, splash”), West Frisian sputterje (“to sputter”), Dutch sputteren (“to sputter”), Low German sputtern, spruttern (“to sprinkle”), German sprudeln (“to spout, squirt”). Compare splutter.

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: пръскам слюнки (prǎskam sljunki) — to emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking
• Finnish: pärskytellä — to emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking
• French: postillonner — to emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking
• German: spucken — to emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking
• Māori: ānu — to emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking
• Russian: бры́згать слюной (brýzgatʹ) — to emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking
• Spanish: farfullar — to emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking
• Finnish: sopertaa — to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly
• Finnish: sössöttää — to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly
• German: mit feuchter Aussprache sprechen — to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly
• Russian: бессвязно говори́ть (bessvjazno) — to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly
• Tày: bắc bử — to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly
• Bulgarian: разпрашвам (razprašvam) — to cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
• Czech: rozprašovat — to cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
• Czech: odprašovat — to cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
• Finnish: sputteroida — to cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
• French: pulvériser — to cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
• Czech: naprašovat — to coat the surface of an object by sputtering
• Czech: naprášit — to coat the surface of an object by sputtering
• Finnish: sputteroida — to coat the surface of an object by sputtering
• Finnish: pölyttää — to coat the surface of an object by sputtering
• French: revêtir, métalliser — to coat the surface of an object by sputtering
• Russian: напылять (napyljatʹ) — to coat the surface of an object by sputtering