sputter

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
2. noun Confused and hasty speech.
3. verb To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
4. verb To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
5. verb To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
6. verb To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
7. verb To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

Similar words

spattering splattering spatter splatter splutter skin clamber scramble shinny struggle

Often followed by

deposition and of etching yield deposited time coating out

Word family

sputtered sputterer sputterers sputtering sputters