sputter

climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage

the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively

spit up in an explosive manner

an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)

cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed

“The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust”

make an explosive sound

“sputtering engines”