splutter

1. (countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.Examples: "a splutter of water from a pipe"; "[He] broke down a slap, as he called it, in a dry stone fence, and lugged the unresisting animal [a horse] through the breach, about a rood of the simple masonry giving way in the splutter with which he passed."; "As certain liquors, confined in casks too cramped in their dimensions, will ferment, and fret, and chafe in their imprisonment, so the spiritual essence or soul of Mr. Tappertit would sometimes fume within that precious cask, his body, until, with great foam and froth and splutter, it would force a vent, and carry all before it."countable

2. (countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.countable

3. (figuratively)Examples: "But party carries every thing nowadays, and what a splutter have I heard about the wit of that saying, repeated with admiration about a hundred times in half an hour."; "[M]y ways of out-of-the-wayness were by no means quiet, but perpetually firing up under their feet in little splutters and spitfires of the most appalling heresy; […]"countablefiguratively

4. (figuratively)Synonyms: controversycountablefiguratively

5. (figuratively)Examples: "a splutter of rage from the old man"Synonyms: sputterfigurativelyuncountable