balbutiate

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English

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Etymology

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Latin balbutire, from balbus (stammering): compare French balbutier.

Verb

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balbutiate (third-person singular simple present balbutiates, present participle balbutiating, simple past and past participle balbutiated)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To stammer.
    • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, [], London: [] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
      five times in foure and twenty houres praying (or rather balbutiating) orderly

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