sputter

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To spit out or spray particles of saliva or food from the mouth in noisy bursts.
• intransitive verb To spit out words or sounds in an excited or confused manner.
• intransitive verb To make sporadic spitting or popping sounds.
• intransitive verb Physics To cause the atoms of a solid to be removed from the surface by bombardment with atoms in a discharge tube.
• intransitive verb To eject in short bursts with spitting or popping sounds.
• intransitive verb To utter in an excited or confused manner.
• intransitive verb Physics To coat (a solid surface) with metal atoms by sputtering.
• noun The act or sound of sputtering.
• noun Matter emitted in sputtering.
• noun Excited or confused utterance.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of sputtering.
• noun That which is thrown off or ejected in sputtering.
• noun The noise made by a person who or a thing which sputters; hence, bustle; ado; excited talk; squabble.
• To spit, or eject saliva from the mouth in small or scattered bits; hence, to throw out moisture in small detached parts and with small explosions; emit small particles, as of grease, soot, etc., with some crackling or noise.
• To speak so rapidly and vehemently as to seem to spit out the words, as in excitement or anger.
• To emit forcibly in small or scattered portions, as saliva, flame, etc.; spit out noisily.
• To emit in small particles or amounts with slight explosions: as, the candle sputters smoke; a green stick sputters out steam.
• To utter rapidly and with indistinctness; jabber.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
• intransitive verb To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
• intransitive verb To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
• transitive verb To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
• noun Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
• verb To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
• verb To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
• verb To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
• verb transitive To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
• verb physics (intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions
• verb physics (transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
• noun an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
• verb spit up in an explosive manner
• verb climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
• verb cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
• verb utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
• verb make an explosive sound