stutterer

Variant of stutter

transitive verb, intransitive verb

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

Origin: 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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