*putter*

n. 1. One who puts or plates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Golf) (a) A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a metal head, used in putting. (b) One who putts. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. An instigator. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sputtered p. pr. & vb. n. Sputtering. ] [ From the root of spout or spit to eject from the mouth. Cf. Splutter. ] 1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. [ 1913 Webster ]

They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. Congreve. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the midst of caresses, and without the least pretended incitement, to sputter out the basest accusations. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech. [ 1913 Webster ]