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Definition of Stutter

1. Verb. Speak haltingly. "Sam and Sue stutter"; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"

2. Noun. A speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds.

Definition of Stutter

1. v. t. & i. To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

2. n. The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.

Definition of Stutter

1. Verb. (intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds. ¹

2. Noun. A speech disorder characterised by stuttering. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stutter

1. to speak with spasmodic repetition [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stutter

sturm and drang sturmanite sturmer sturmers sturnine sturnoid sturnuses sturt sturted sturting

sturtite sturts stush stushie stushies stutter (current term) stutter gun stuttered stutterer stutterers

stuttering stuttering(a) stutteringly stutterings stutters stuttery sty stycas stycerin

Literary usage of Stutter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the by Charles John Smith (1871)
"See CONSTANCY. STAGGER. See REEL. STAIN. See COLOUR. STAMMER. stutter. He is said to STAMMER (Low ... He only is said to stutter who suffers from the last. ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... to chatter, stutter, tattle, and this also seems the primitive sense of Fr. dad.ee, childish toying, speech, or dalliance.—Cot. Dada in German nurseries ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... dodem, to chatter, stutter, tattle, and this also seems the primitive sense of Fr. ... stutter ..."

4. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1840)
"7. and a little head, out of Aristotle : high sanguine red colour shews head-melancholy : they that stutter and are bald, will be soonest melancholy, ..."

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