a splutter of water from a pipe
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Splutter
//ˈsplʌtə//
Synonyms for "splutter" (178 found)
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29 translations across 4 languages.
Czech
1 entries- prskat verb (to spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking)
Finnish
4 entries- köhiminen noun (forceful choking or spitting sound)
- pärskytys noun (forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles)
- räiskytys noun (forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles)
- ärinä noun (chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; an instance of this)
French
1 entries- postillonner verb (to spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking)
German
1 entries- stottern verb (to speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
[He] broke down a slap, as he called it, in a dry stone fence, and lugged the unresisting animal [a horse] through the breach, about a rood of the simple masonry giving way in the splutter with which he passed.
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As certain liquors, confined in casks too cramped in their dimensions, will ferment, and fret, and chafe in their imprisonment, so the spiritual essence or soul of Mr. Tappertit would sometimes fume within that precious cask, his body, until, with great foam and froth and splutter, it would force a vent, and carry all before it.
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There was a flicker of matches as they were applied to the fuses, and then a splutter of sparks. An instant later it seemed as if the whole heavens had been lighted up.
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