v. [Imitative: cf. SPLIRT v.]
1. trans. To squirt or spirt out (liquid). dial.
1825–54. in N. Cy. and Northampt. glossaries (s.v. Splirt).
2. intr. To sputter or splash.
1845. J. Keegan, Leg. & Poems (1907), 259. When the fire-canoe of the pale-face first hissed and splurted in the great waters of the mighty Missouri.
