[f. as prec.] The action of the verb in various senses.
1739. Joe Miller’s Jests, No. 167. But all his spluttering was in vain.
1840. Thackeray, Catherine, vi. He emptied, with much spluttering and grimaces,… the beer into the fire.
1856. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 299. What galloping and spluttering over the paper.
