Splutter

Definition

splutter /'splʌtǝ(r) / v ၁။ (also sputter ) ~ sth (out) ထစ္ထစ္ေငါ့ေငါ့ ဒေရာေသာပါးေျပာသည္။ ‘But, but… you can't!’ he spluttered. ❍ splutter (out) a few words of apology. ၂။ တခူးခူး၊ တဖုတ္ဖုတ္၊ တဟြတ္ဟြတ္၊ တဖ်စ္ဖ်စ္ စသည္ ျမည္သည္။ She jumped into the water and came up coughing and spluttering. ❍ The engine spluttered into life (ie started). n တခူးခူး၊ တဖုတ္ဖုတ္၊ တဟြတ္ဟြတ္၊ တဖ်စ္ဖ်စ္ စသည္ ျမည္သံ။ The candle gave a few faint splutters and then went out.

Examples

1. ‘At last the tractor began to spit and splutter in protest and Papa and I knew that our efforts had nearly paid off.’
2. ‘The man choked and spluttered
3. but didn't answer.’
4. ‘As the Boss choked and spluttered for air he fished in his pocket for something.’
5. ‘You will find it splutters around
6. sometimes spitting spots of fuel from the exhaust
7. not seeming very impressive.’
8. ‘It overheated
9. it clunked
10. it smoked
11. stuttered
12. spluttered and on more than one occasion - blew up.’
13. ‘Vic looked at them as a sooty Tom coughed and spluttered.’
14. ‘‘It wasn't much
15. around seven million
16. ’ she paused as the Inspector choked and spluttered.’
17. ‘Her nostrils flare and she splutters
18. frothing bubbles from her nose
19. laying a thick trail of wrong wayed fluid in her wind pipe
20. but holding in the cough; drinking
21. and putting everything else on hold.’
22. ‘She began to cough and splutter sickly
23. the urge to do so appearing quite abruptly.’
24. ‘Julia splutters as she swallows the last sip of her wine.’
25. ‘Trying to scramble back onto the bank all grace aside
26. she kicked and spluttered.’
27. ‘I run this by Mrs Webber who splutters for a second.’
28. ‘But be warned - take a deep breath before you push that button or
29. like me
30. you could find yourself gasping and spluttering amid a thick mist of spray.’
31. ‘Matt spluttered
32. letting a small bit of his beer spill from his mouth
33. ‘I thought he took out the cameras!’’
34. ‘His brother spluttered all the way to the table but to no avail.’
35. ‘Kara sipped the one he handed her and spluttered.’
36. ‘Norwood coughed and spluttered
37. trying to speak.’
38. ‘I gave a gasping cry and began breathing heavily
39. then choked and spluttered for his benefit.’
40. ‘The heater coughed and spluttered loudly and we both laughed nervously
41. trying to ease the tension.’
42. ‘Will I emerge gasping and spluttering
43. bleary-eyed; or will I learn to hold my breath
44. to close my eyes?’