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What does sputter mean?

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Noun
  1. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
Verb
  1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
  2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
  3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
  4. (transitive) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
  5. (physics) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
  6. (physics) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering
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