Spitter vs. Sputter — What's the Difference?

One that spits

To spit out or spray particles of saliva or food from the mouth in noisy bursts.

(Baseball) See spitball.

To spit out words or sounds in an excited or confused manner.

One who puts meat on a spit.

To make sporadic spitting or popping sounds

A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

(Physics) To cause the atoms of a solid to be removed from the surface by bombardment with atoms in a discharge tube.

One who spits.

To eject in short bursts with spitting or popping sounds.

(baseball) A spitball.

To utter in an excited or confused manner.

A spitting cobra.

(Physics) To coat (a solid surface) with metal atoms by sputtering.

One who ejects saliva from the mouth.

The act or sound of sputtering.

One who puts meat on a spit.

Matter emitted in sputtering.

A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

Excited or confused utterance.

A person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.

An illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it

Confused and hasty speech.

(intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

(ambitransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.

(ambitransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.

To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.

To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.

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

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

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively;

An utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)

Make an explosive sound;

Cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed;

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage

Spit up in an explosive manner