Definitions for "Sputter"
Keywords:  utter, hastily, rage, saliva, explosive
To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
Keywords:  awkwardly, scrambling, climb
climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
Keywords:  undergo, protons, dust, solar, atoms
cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed; "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust"