spluttery

[ spluht-uh-ree ]

adjective

1. tending to splutter:

   spluttery fire sparks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spluttery¹

First recorded in 1865–70; splutter + -y ¹

Example Sentences

The engine was making some spluttery noises, but it was still going.

From Literature

Not so the climate-deniers, who hurl spluttery insults, fill their feeds with the usual swill about President Barack Obama’s suspicious birthplace and the conspiratorial doings across the border in Mexico, and link to risible idiocy about how the global warming “conspiracy” is a “ploy to make us poorer,” whose real purpose is “to redistribute wealth from the first world to the third, an explicit goal of UN climate policy.”

From Time

Which is all well and good, except for the fact that Face the Clock is basically Pass the Parcel, so it may as well be presented by a clown in a spluttery car.

From The Guardian

Clowns, with buckets of confetti, driving around in little spluttery cars.

From The Guardian

A suspiciously self-assured Tom appeared on the live post-final wrap-up, not nearly as spluttery, puppyish and bewildered as the heavily edited character from the series.

From The Guardian