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sputter
assibilate, bravado, ejaculate, frication, intimidation, pounding, roister, sissing, spatter, tattoo, white noise
Definition
n.
the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
Last update: August 5, 2015
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He
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ed a lot while delivering the speech.
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We might
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under the water now and then, but if we stick together we can help each other through the rapids.
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The lamp
sputter
ed and went out.
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_ The telephone
sputter
ed for a moment.
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We waited, while the torches
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ed lower, and a dank breath of the forest crept between the trees.
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Drummond's wrath got the better of his speech and he only
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ed, waving an accusing finger at the retreating Perry.
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Lincoln, who had once been a rail-
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, was uproariously derided by Northern Democrats because he had challenged Mr.
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"Because you ain't had no education: What does a rail-
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like Abe know about this government."
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She says she can
sputter
and rage and laugh, and he just listens and quiets her down.
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I despised him, and where he
sputter
ed and stammered and raged, I was cool and quiet, and smiling at him.
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One by one, the lights in the thousand rooms, touched by the waves, hissed,
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ed, and expired.
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