Sputter

1. n. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
2. v. i. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
3. v. i. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
4. v. i. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
5. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.