stutter
stut·ter (stut′ər)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
- stammer
- 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
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
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.
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