sputter

[SPUTTER, ขυ.] 1. Moist matter ejected in small detached par IMG:content-0132.png:[blocks in formation] rowels of a spur. "Like a star it cast a spurry ray." Chapman: Homer's Iliad , xix. 367. spurt (1), *spirt, v . t . & i. [The same word as sprout; Mid. Eng. sprutten, from A. S. spry than , spritten to sprout.] spū-tum, s. [Lat., from spuo =to spit out.] *1. Ord . Lang .: Spittle; salival discharges from the mouth. 2. Pathol .: The substance expectorated in bronchitis, pneumonia, and other chest affections. Often in the plural, sputa . spy