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stutter Definition

stut·ter (stutər)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

  1. stammer
  2. to make (a series of repeated sounds) stuttering machine guns

Etymology: freq. of dial. stut, to stutter < ME stutten, akin to Ger stossen, to knock, push < IE *(s)teud-: see study

noun

the act or an instance of stuttering

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stutter Synonyms

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v.

stutter Usage Examples

Object

  • bit: Also, when pausing and resuming it stutters a bit, but carries on fine.
  • speech: And stuttering speech but in my good number Rose Software these.
  • something: I just stuttered something, then cunningly changed the subject.
  • beat: We are lured into a haze of echoing vocals, stuttering beats and bleeps.

Converse of object

  • overcome: About the Author Stephen Hill is somebody who has overcome a stutter.
  • develop: I myself developed a stutter at the age of four or five.
  • do: I say, speak up, don't stutter.
  • have: For somebody who has a stutter, life at times is a struggle.
  • get: That will fix your missing sound problem and improve your stuttering picture... but I am still getting a little picture stutter on Freeview!

Preposition: at

  • time: The voice-over was quite hard as we kept on stuttering at times and we had to start all over again.
  • age: I myself developed a stutter at the age of four or five.

Preposition: into

  • life: The fluorescents stuttered into life, painting a luminous topcoat of normality on the silent kitchen.

Adjective modifier

  • severe: I had a severe stutter, this was something which after a lot of hard work I managed to overcome.
  • slight: These were delivered in his renowned style with erudition, punctuated by a disarming slight stutter.
  • bad: My father suffered from a bad stutter, a condition that I mimicked in a 1988 comedy film.

Modifying Another Word

  • just: This from the man who has just stuttered his way online.
  • away: When i click on the podcast link it is just stuttering away.
  • slightly: I slide my chair back about a foot, unable to prevent myself stuttering slightly and repeat what Vic has said " .

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • along: The season had kind of stuttered along, problems with my foot, post-op at the end of 1998.
  • out: Sehwag stutters out of the crease as he chases the single, but Bell's throw agonizingly misses his target.
stutter Quotes

One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, An'taking home a'load' with manly pride; My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came up an' lay down by my side. Then we sang 'It's all fair weather when good fellowsget together,' Till a lady passing by was heard to say: 'You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses', And the pig got up and slowly walked away.

—Burt, Benjamin Hapgood