Stuttering

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stuttering \Stut"ter*ing\, n.
     The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some
     physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form
     the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as
     distinguished from stammering.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stuttering \Stut"ter*ing\, a.
     Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering. -- {Stut"ter*ing*ly},
     adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stuttering
       adj : unable to speak freely and easily [syn: {stammering(a)}, {stuttering(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "stuttering":
     balbutient, balbuties, battology, ceaseless, ceaselessness,
     chattering, constancy, constant, constant flow, continual,
     continualness, continuity, dysphemia, expletive, faltering,
     filling, halting, hesitating, hesitation, incessancy, incessant,
     machine gun, macrology, noninterruption, oscillating, oscillation,
     padding, palilalia, perennial, perpetual, perpetuity, pleonasm,
     pulsating, pulsation, quick fire, rapid, rapid fire,
     rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, redundancy, regular,
     regularity, repeated, repetition, staccato, stammer, stammering,
     steadiness, steady, stumbling, stutter, sustained, sustainment,
     tattoo, tautologism, tautology, traulism, unbroken, unceasing,
     unchanging, unintermission, unintermitted, unintermittent,
     unintermitting, uninterrupted, uninterruption, unremitting,
     unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, vibration