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sputteringly

sputteringly adverb: with sputtering noises, especially while scattering or throwing particles.

Adverb

sputteringly (comparative more sputteringly, superlative most sputteringly)

  1. With sputtering noises, especially while scattering or throwing particles.
    • [W]here in her theatrical character she was to sup off a roast fowl (O joy to Barbara!) some comic actor, who was for the night caterer for this dainty—in the misguided humour of his part, threw over the dish such a quantity of salt (O grief and pain of heart to Barbara!) that when he crammed a...1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Barbara S⁠——”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 119
    • For a while he sat in silence beside the fire of bones soaked in train oil that burned sputteringly on the hearthstones beneath the smoke hole set in the pointed roof.1930, Alice Alison Lide, Margaret Alison Johansen, chapter VIII, in Ood-le-uk the Wanderer, page 106

Forms of sputteringly

comparativemore sputteringly
superlativemost sputteringly

Origin of sputteringly

From sputtering + -ly.

Questions about sputteringly

What does sputteringly mean?
Sputteringly means with sputtering noises, especially while scattering or throwing particles.
What part of speech is sputteringly?
Sputteringly is an adverb.

Words near sputteringly in the dictionary

  1. sputtered out
  2. sputterer
  3. sputterers
  4. sputtering
  5. sputtering out
  6. sputteringly
  7. sputterings
  8. sputters
  9. sputters out
  10. sputtery
  11. sputum

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