Definition of "splutter" []

To make repeated or sporadic spitting sounds. (verb-intransitive)
To speak hastily and incoherently, as when confused or angry. (verb-intransitive)
To utter or express hastily and incoherently. (verb-transitive)
A spluttering noise. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "splutter" in a sentence

"Draught horses are led around the smaller ring, and nearby dozens of stationary engines chuff, splutter and bounce on individual pitches."
"Jeffrey sez, We're getting more and more excellent panoramic photographers uploading their spherical panoramas to our site - but this one made me splutter with delight."
"A minute later the splutter of an exhaust told them the silencer had been taken off."

Words like "splutter"

cough out cough up emit expectorate

let loose let out noise spit out

spit up spluttered spluttering splutters

utter utterance vocalization