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   stutter

   /ˈstʌtə/

   verb

   • 1. talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants: "the child was stuttering in fright"
   • ▪ say something with difficulty, repeating the initial consonants of words: "he shyly stuttered out an invitation to the cinema"
   • ▪ (of a machine or gun) produce a series of short, sharp sounds: "she flinched as a machine gun stuttered nearby"
   • ▪ progress in a hesitant or irregular way: "the country still has problems, not least that its economy is stuttering and unemployment is high"

   noun

   • 1. a tendency to stutter while speaking: "‘She's p-perfectly j-justified,’ he said with his intermittent stutter"
   • ▪ a series of short, sharp sounds produced by a machine or gun: "a machine gun shattered the quiet with its explosive stutter"

   Word Origin late 16th century (as a verb): frequentative of dialect stut, of Germanic origin; related to German stossen ‘strike against’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. stutterer noun

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