sputter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈspʌtɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles. countable,uncountable
  2. Confused and hasty speech. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. intransitive
    — The child [...] kicked, and crowed, and sputtered, when his mother took him, and put up his little fingers to clutch her hair, and was to her as a young god upon the earth. Nothing in the world had ever been created so beautiful, so joyous, so satisfactory, so divine!
  2. To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage. ambitransitive
    — They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.
  3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. ambitransitive
    — Like the green wood [...] sputtering in the flame.
  4. To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions. intransitive
  5. To coat the surface of an object by sputtering. transitive

词形变化

sputters plural sputters present,singular,third-person sputtering participle,present sputtered participle,past sputtered past

词汇关系

衍生词
sputterable sputter coating sputterer sputteringly sputter out sputtery unsputtered
相关词
spit nails

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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