FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

v To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

v To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.

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

v (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.

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

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