Word Meanings - STUTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. Macaulay. (more info) Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G. stottern, D. stooten to push,

Additional info about word: STUTTER

To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. Macaulay. (more info) Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G. stottern, D. stooten to push, to strike; akin to G. stossen, Icel. stauta, Sw. stöta, Dan. stöde, Goth. stautan, L. tundere, Skr. tud to thrust. Cf. Contuse,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STUTTER)

• Stammer
• Stutter
• hesitate
• falter

Related words: (words related to STUTTER)

• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• STAMMERING
  Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
• HESITATE
  haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, 1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate
• FALTERING
  Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.
• STAMMERER
  One who stammers.
• STUTTERING
  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.
• STAMMER
  To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine comes
• STUTTER
  To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. Macaulay. (more info) Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G. stottern, D. stooten to push,
• STUTTERER
  One who stutters; a stammerer.