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spluttery
adjective
informaluk /ˈsplʌt.ər.i/ us /ˈsplʌt̬.ɚ.i/
Spluttery speech or sound is quick and confused, and full of short, unclear noises:
He got all spluttery and angry, but you stayed completely calm.
The dialogue is too spluttery, too stop-and-go.
There was an eruption of hissing spluttery steam.
You can just imagine the spluttery anger that such a decision would provoke.
It's the kind of comedy that can make you laugh out loud and sob all at once in a spluttery mess.
Camping used to be about bad food cooked over a spluttery gas burner.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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come out
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talk through your hatidiom
tattle
telegrammatic
turn of phrase
undertone
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