Meaning of sputtery | Babel Free

Definitions

prone to sputter

Examples

“It is but a gesture; I expect⟳ no coherent words from your clogged and sputtery pen; but while I am sufficiently like⟳ yourself to deceive⟳ the public into thinking you have⟳ written what they read⟳, I am not yet great enough scoundrel to do so without your visiting the scene of your presumed labors.”

“On _____ Is an Apparition (Rossbin), the new album by his trio Blue Collar, he uses puckered curlicues, vocalizations distorted by the horn's tubing, sputtery stammers, quiet half-valved passages that turn⟳ his sound⟳ into a fluid whisper⟳, and even some clear, straightforward long tones.”

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