Definition of "sputtered" [sputtered]

• Simple past tense and past participle of sputter. (verb)

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• "Kevin sputtered as a particularly forceful stream splashed him."
• "The white working class saw then that their communities were above all threatened by the newcomers and Black-burying was the gallows humour of the Teddy Boys as they caught the tube over to Notting hill intent on violence which sputtered from the riots of the late 50s."
• "And Goldy again sputtered some more than claimed he wasn't around when that incident happened."