English Dictionary

sputter

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈspʌtɚ/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

(intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

日本語の意味

口から唾液を小刻みに、ばらばらと吐き出すこと / （急いで話す際などに）発せられる言葉とともに、唾液が飛び散る様子

When the interviewer asked about the missing funds, the politician began to sputter, tiny spits flicking from his mouth as he stumbled over an explanation.

記者が行方不明の資金について尋ねると、その政治家は言い訳をしようとして唾を小刻みに飛ばしながら口ごもり、説明に詰まった。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

The child … kicked, and crowed, and sputtered, when his mother took him, and put up his little fingers to clutch her hair, and was to her as a young god upon the earth. Nothing in the world had ever been created so beautiful, so joyous, so satisfactory, so divine!

意味（2）

(transitive, intransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.

They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

Like the green wood … sputtering in the flame.

意味（4）

(physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.

意味（5）

(physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

sputters （ present singular third-person ）

sputtering （ participle present ）

sputtered （ participle past ）

sputtered （ past ）