stotter

See also: støtter

English

Alternative forms

• stowter, stauter, stawter

Etymology

From Middle English stoteren (compare also participle Middle English staterand (“staggering; tottering; stumbling”)), a frequentative form of Middle English stoten (“to stumble”), related to Dutch stoten (“to push; bump; butt; stumble against”), German stoßen (“to push; butt; knock; bump”), Icelandic stauta (“to struggle through; pound; grind”), equivalent to stut +‎ -er (frequentative suffix).

Verb

stotter (third-person singular simple present stotters, present participle stottering, simple past and past participle stottered)

1. (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To stagger; totter; stumble
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.

Anagrams

• rottest, stretto, tortest, totters

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

stotter

1. inflection of stotteren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

German

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Verb

stotter

1. inflection of stottern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative