sputteringly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With sputtering noises, especially while scattering or throwing particles.
Example Sentences
- "[W]here in her theatrical character she was to sup off a roast fowl (O joy to Barbara!) some comic actor, who was for the night caterer for this dainty—in the misguided humour of his part, threw over the dish such a quantity of salt (O grief and pain of heart to Barbara!) that when he crammed a portion of it into her mouth, she was obliged sputteringly to reject it; […]"
- "For a while he sat in silence beside the fire of bones soaked in train oil that burned sputteringly on the hearthstones beneath the smoke hole set in the pointed roof."
Etymology
From sputtering + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more sputteringly (comparative)
most sputteringly (superlative)