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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stutter
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Other children often teased me because I stuttered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A string of shots stuttered nearby.
▪ Carter stuttered as a child and burns now with an eloquence that takes him over from time to time.
▪ Now he raised his hand, but when Mason called on him Boris began to stutter.
▪ Savio, a shy man who stuttered before small groups, was riveting and compelling when he spoke to thousands.
▪ That night I began to stutter.
▪ The engine was stuttering and cutting out.
▪ There was a small refrigerator which stuttered and hummed in the night, and some kitchen things.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ You can't hear Ron's stutter when he sings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A biology student with a stutter now occupied the back room.
▪ Despite a terrible stutter, he emerged as a gifted teacher.
▪ Herman Katz was a thin, youngish man with nervous eyes and a slight stutter.
▪ I played a character in Birmingham with a limp and a stutter and they said I was overdoing it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stutter

Stutter \Stut"ter\, n.

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

  2. One who stutters; a stammerer. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

Stutter

Stutter \Stut"ter\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Stuttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuttering.] [Freq. of stut, OE. stoten; probably of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G. stottern, D. stooten to push, to strike; akin to G. stossen, Icel. stauta, Sw. st["o]ta, Dan. st["o]de, Goth. stautan, L. tundere, Skr. tud to thrust. Cf. Contuse, Obtuse.] To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor.
--Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stutter

1560s, frequentative form of stutt "to stutter," from Middle English stutten "to stutter, stammer" (late 14c.), cognate with Middle Low German stoten "to knock, strike against, collide," from Proto-Germanic *staut- "push, thrust" (cognates: Old English stotan, Old High German stozan, Gothic stautan "to push, thrust"), from PIE *(s)teu- (1) "to hit, beat, knock against" (see steep (adj.)). The noun is attested from 1854. Related: Stuttered; stuttering; stutterer.

Wiktionary
stutter

n. 1 A speech disorder characterised by stuttering. 2 (context obsolete English) One who stutters; a stammerer. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds. 2 (context intransitive English) To exhaust a gas with difficulty

WordNet
stutter
  1. n. a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds [syn: stammer]

  2. v. speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room" [syn: bumble, stammer, falter]

Wikipedia
Stutter (Elastica song)

"Stutter" is a song by the Britpop group Elastica and was written by lead singer Justine Frischmann. It was originally released as a single in 1993 and then included on the band's 1995 self-titled debut album. The single, which received positive reviews from critics, charted in the US and Canada.

Stutter (Joe song)

"Stutter" is a 2000 song by American R&B singer Joe. The original version of the song was produced by Roy "Royalty" Hamilton and Teddy Riley and written by Roy "Royalty" Hamilton and Ernest E. Dixon. A remix by Allen "Allstar" Gordon Jr. (marketed as "The Double Take Remix", due to its appearance in the similarly titled 2001 film, Double Take) features rapper Mystikal, and was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States for four weeks in 2001. It was one of just three singles to have sold over 500,000 copies in 2001.

Stutter (album)

Stutter was the debut album from English band James, released in June 1986. The album was produced by Lenny Kaye, although the band had originally hoped to work with Brian Eno. After a bidding war between a number of labels, the album was released on Blanco y Negro, part of Sire. Artwork was provided by John Carroll.

Stutter (disambiguation)

A stutter, or stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by the spasmodic repetition of a sound.

Stutter or stuttering may also refer to:

Usage examples of "stutter".

I stuttered the question to completion, asking how Mammy Venus had survived.

He rattled them a few times and prepared to throw again when the manjack across the room stuttered its twelve rounds.

The men stood again and pulled their triggers, so that a stuttering mistimed volley flamed in the dusk.

Besides suffering from undiagnosed dyslexia that impaired his ability to read, he would often stutter when beginning to speak, his mind would wander in mid-sentence, and it was difficult for him to follow simple instructions.

Was she really rising now, with weak legs and empty contracting stomach and stuttering heart, and moving along the pew to take her position in the center of the aisle, and setting out her reasons, her just causes, in a defiant untrembling voice as she advanced in her cape and headdress, like a bride of Christ, toward the altar, toward the openmouthed vicar who had never before in his long career been interrupted, toward the congregation of twisted necks, and the half-turned white-faced couple?

Very weak, I agree, but Doakes displayed an unnerving habit of asking the most awkward questions, and with such an understated viciousness, that I found it hard enough not to stutter, let alone come up with something clever.

The bit stuttered violently, jumped out of the keyway, and skipped across the two-inch-wide shackle, spitting tiny sparks.

Schools of fish as brightly hued as the kitschy neon signs that had recently become popular again stuttered right and left, up and down, moving like a score of bodies sharing one sensibility among them.

Every now and then Krebs would grasp the starting-handle and crank it hard and a feeble stutter would come from the engine before he went back to his tinkering.

I set out well pleased with the assistance the stuttering Lambert had given me, and by noon I was at Riga.

The guardians at the gate pointed at Lukien, asking questions that made Grak stutter.

Thick, knotted smoke trailed in a stuttering plume from his starboard repulsor engine.

Not a word until he was four, and then it was all stutters and stammers.

For one heart-stopping moment I thought they were all dead or dying, mown down in swathes by that stuttering machine gun, then I saw mr.

Encountering chuckholes, cracks, and patches in the pavement, the tires stuttered as hard as rapping hammers, and Dylan worried about the consequences of a blowout at this lightning pace, but he pressed the Expedition to 96, taxing the shock absorbers, torturing the springs, onward to 97, with engine screaming and wind of their own manufacture shrieking at the windows, to 98, between bracketing big rigs, around a sleek Jaguar with a cruise-missile whoosh that elicited a disapproving blast of the sports car's horn, to 99.