spluttery

comparative more spluttery · comparative splutterier · superlative most spluttery · superlative splutteriest

1. Characterised by spluttering.

   Another engine fired up, this one more spluttery.

   2007, Keri Arthur, chapter 12, in Embraced by Darkness, London: Piatkus Books, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, page 293

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   At least a photograph of an Oscar for the splutteriest and most unintelligible performance in an otherwise for the most part excellent production is bequeathed with proper ceremony.

   1956 May 20, George Jean Nathan, “Awards a Few Hocked Oscars”, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 115th year, number 141, Cleveland, Oh., →ISSN, page 4⁠—⁠E

   He sat quite still, listening intently, sometimes spluttering with laughter when I made a specially odd face, sometimes receiving me in preoccupied silence. I went on to Robinson Crusoe and then Robin Hood where I had great fun doing Friar Tuck. I was at my grossest and Sven at his splutteriest when Blanka returned.

   1959, Anthony Glyn, chapter 8, in I Can Take It All, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, published 1960, →LCCN, page 167

   And “Old P” had stuck, for the whole of the year that Tony had had her, as her grinding day by day got grindier and her spluttering splutterier.

   1986, H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating, “Old P”, in Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes, Secaucus, N.J.: Castle, published 1988, →ISBN, page 352

   Her life, ending in the humiliation and agonized numbness of intestinal cancer, had been more than hard; […] never enough money, never a vacation (unless she counted the weekends at Greenwood Lake, in the upstairs room at Murphy’s Inn, the Catskill “resort hotel” with the freshest flypaper, the splutteriest motorboats, the unruliest kids, the unholiest drinking songs); […]

   2000 August 31, Marion Caryl Somers, “April 10. Last Year”, in The Home: A Brief Moment in Time, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 67