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sputter

[spuht-er] / ˈspʌt ər /
VERB
stumble
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STRONGEST


VERB
falter
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After drying the samples were coated on Sputter Coater.

From Nature • May 20, 2014

Sputter in those games, though, and the Americans could be ousted long before anyone expected.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2012

"What—what—what kind of language is this, sir?" exclaimed Sir Spigot Sputter!

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

It is the Fifth grand Crisis in the Kaiser's spectre-huntings; fifth change in the color of the world-lobster getting boiled in that singular manner;—Second Sputter of actual War.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Carlyle, Thomas




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