[f. as prec.] That splutters or sputters.
1706. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 28. The End of War-ships is Fighting; but this spluttering Manager seems to believe them built … purely for Sailing.
1846. Hawthorne, Mosses, I. i. By the hissing and spluttering rain.
1852. Motley, Corr. (1889), I. v. 141. The noisy spluttering politics which constitute our vital elements.
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, III. viii. 164. Dopsy exploded in a little spluttering laugh behind her napkin.
