Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which sputters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who sputters.
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- noun
Agent noun ofsputter ; one who sputters.
Etymologies
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sputter + -er
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Examples
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And hydrogen sucks as a sputterer due to the mass mismatch with, say, regolith atoms.
More Water on the Moon: Second Instrument Confirms Findings | Universe Today 2009
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Montgomery Field sits atop a very densely populated urban center with few good places to put a sputterer down once you've broken earth, which is something I study on each time I put the spurs to her.
Neptunus Lex lex 2010
krynsky commented on the word sputterer
This should be Twitter's middle name
June 26, 2007