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sputtery

sputtery adjective: prone to sputter.

Adjective

sputtery (comparative more sputtery, superlative most sputtery)

  1. prone to sputter
    • It is but a gesture; I expect no coherent words from your clogged and sputtery pen; but while I am sufficiently like yourself to deceive the public into thinking you have written what they read, I am not yet great enough scoundrel to do so without your visiting the scene of your presumed labors.1927-1937, Ward Moore, Greener Than You Think
    • On _____ Is an Apparition (Rossbin), the new album by his trio Blue Collar, he uses puckered curlicues, vocalizations distorted by the horn's tubing, sputtery stammers, quiet half-valved passages that turn his sound into a fluid whisper, and even some clear, straightforward long tones.2004 October 15, Mark Athitakis, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of sputtery

comparativemore sputtery
superlativemost sputtery

Origin of sputtery

From sputter + -y.

Questions about sputtery

What does sputtery mean?
Sputtery means prone to sputter.
What part of speech is sputtery?
Sputtery is an adjective.

Words near sputtery in the dictionary

  1. sputtering out
  2. sputteringly
  3. sputterings
  4. sputters
  5. sputters out
  6. sputtery
  7. sputum
  8. sputums
  9. Spuyten Duyvil
  10. SPV
  11. SPVM

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