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stutter
[ stuht-er ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to speak in such a way that the rhythm is interrupted by repetitions, blocks or spasms, or prolongations of sounds or syllables, sometimes accompanied by contortions of the face and body.
noun
- disordered speech production characterized principally by blocks or spasms interrupting the rhythm.
stutter
/ ˈstʌtə /
verb
- to speak (a word, phrase, etc) with recurring repetition of consonants, esp initial ones
- to make (an abrupt sound) repeatedly
the gun stuttered
noun
- the act or habit of stuttering
- a stuttering sound
stutter
/ stŭt′ər /
- A speech disorder characterized by spasmodic repetition of the initial consonant or syllable of words and frequent pauses or prolongation of sounds.
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Derived Forms
- ˈstutteringly, adverb
- ˈstuttering, nounadjective
- ˈstutterer, noun
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Other Words From
- stut·ter·er noun
- stut·ter·ing·ly adverb
- un·stut·tered adjective
- un·stut·ter·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stutter1
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Example Sentences
But, even with a pronounced stutter for the rest of his days, Moses survived.
Sometimes an f-word or a b-word is used in TV and movies like a stutter.
A thin man with a wisp of a goatee beard, he struggles with a stutter to explain what happened to him that day.
He was a boy of 14, Chicago born and raised, with a persistent stutter left over from an early bout with polio.
Maybe the media, and professional sports, are just several stutter-steps behind the country on this one.
Slight stutter ensues on the part of the Four Grenadiers; but they give one another the hint, and dash forward: "Prisoners?"
Look at the reports: the bulletins are confused; the commentaries are entangled; the latter stammer, the former stutter.
It was as if two men talked, one in rapid and clear-clipped syllables—the other in a stutter.
His gait was a shuffling trot, his utterance a rapid stutter.
Dick couldn't spell his own name—couldn't answer a question without a stutter.
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