Usually means: Person who speaks with spitting.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word sputterer:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. sputterer: Merriam-Webster
  2. sputterer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sputterer: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sputterer: Wordnik
  5. sputterer: Wiktionary
  6. sputterer: Dictionary.com
  7. Sputterer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. sputterer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Sputterer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. sputterer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. sputterer: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Sputterer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sputterer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See sputter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sputter)

noun:  Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
noun:  Confused and hasty speech.
verb:  (intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
verb:  (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
verb:  (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
▸ Also see sputter


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