Adverb
With sputtering noises, especially while scattering or throwing particles.
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[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; […]
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.