To sputter or hiss.
To fail to generate the expected yield when exploded during testing.
To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
Failure of an exploding nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.
An abortive effort; a flop or dud.
A state of agitation or worry.
A spluttering or hissing sound.
To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles.
Confused and hasty speech.