Stutter Definition

stŭtər
stuttered, stuttering, stutters
verb
stuttered, stuttering, stutters
To speak or utter with a spasmodic repetition or prolongation of sounds.
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Webster's New World
To make (a series of repeated sounds)
Stuttering machine guns.
Webster's New World

(intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

He stuttered a few words of thanks.
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noun
stutters
The act or an instance of stuttering.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Stutter

Noun

Singular:
stutter
Plural:
stutters

Origin of Stutter

  • Frequentative of dialectal stut from Middle English stutten

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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