sputteringlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

sputteringly (comparative more sputteringly, superlative most sputteringly)

1. With sputtering noises, especially while scattering or throwing particles.
   • 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Barbara S⁠——”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 119:

     [W]here in her theatrical character she was to sup off a roast fowl (O joy to Barbara!) some comic actor, who was for the night caterer for this dainty—in the misguided humour of his part, threw over the dish such a quantity of salt (O grief and pain of heart to Barbara!) that when he crammed a portion of it into her mouth, she was obliged sputteringly to reject it; […]

   • 1930, Alice Alison Lide, Margaret Alison Johansen, chapter VIII, in Ood-le-uk the Wanderer, page 106:

     For a while he sat in silence beside the fire of bones soaked in train oil that burned sputteringly on the hearthstones beneath the smoke hole set in the pointed roof.