- sputter
[sputter 词源字典]
- sputter: see spit
[sputter etymology, sputter origin, 英语词源] - sputter (v.)
- 1590s, "to spit with explosive sounds," cognate with Dutch sputteren, West Frisian sputterje, from Proto-Germanic *sput- (see spout (v.)). Related: Sputtered; sputtering. The noun is attested from 1670s.