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Isn't "splut" the sound that's made by a Wall Street banker's head after angry citizens, who have been holding him upside down outside a 47th-floor window, lose their grip on his Gucci loafers and he arrows into the pavement?
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Anyhoo, I just wanted to say that I have no idea what, exactly, a "splut" might be, but as long it won't clog up the scuppers or overflow the gurrybutts nothing at all like counsellor von Ebers' "furry butts", welcome aboard.
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Why don't we splut the delegates in proportion to the current pledged delegate count? mitchell from arkansaw
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Then Mr. Van Daan barked and Mr.. Van Daan splut - tered, Dussel tried to calm them down, and Mommy shouted.
Tales From The Secret Annex Frank, Anne 1983
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He passed them and followed behind Moonglum through the stone corridors of the fortress, lit badly by splut - tering rushes.
Storm Bringer Moorcock, Michael 1963
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He passed them and followed behind Moonglum through the stone corridors of the fortress, lit badly by splut - tering rushes.
Stormbringer Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1963
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The car was spluttering and heaving-it had been splut-tering for a minute, I think, before I noticed it, for I had been examining Pyle's innocent question: 'Are you playing stright?'
The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955
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I tell ye he was in two pieces, splut clean uz a herrin '.
The Strength of the Strong Jack London 1896
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The figure stood up when it reached the middle of the hall, and mopped its eyes with a dirty rag that it carried in its hand; after which it held the rag over the umbrella-stand and wrung it out, as washerwomen wring out clothes, and the dark drippings fell into the tray with a dull, heavy splut.
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I don't got's NO use fer no Civil Liberties … civil liberties is fer commies an liberals … an i don want no commies aroun muh town … and i don wan no rights either … just what are these 'rights' anyway? bunch o 'commie boolsheeit's whad i thunk … guhar … har. .splut!
proftrefusis commented on the word splut
An excellent and very accurate onomatopoeia that I first saw in a Garfield cartoon when Garfield smacked Jon's head into a bowl of (I think) soup.
April 14, 2009