judder

English

WOTD – 3 January 2010

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʌdə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʌdɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)

Noun

judder (countable and uncountable, plural judders)

1. A spasmodic shaking.
2. (television) Jerky playback caused by converting between frame rates; telecine judder

Translations

a spasmodic shaking

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 震动 (zh), 震颤 (zh)

• Danish: bævren c, rysten c
• Finnish: kouristus (fi), kouristelu (fi); vavahtelu
• French: secousse (fr), spasme (fr), saccade (fr), clonie (fr), convulsion (fr), ébranlement (fr)

• Italian: scossa (it)
• Polish: wstrząs (pl) m
• Russian: вибра́ция (ru) f (vibrácija), дрожание (ru) n (drožanije)
• Spanish: sacudida (es), espasmo (es), convulsión (es), estremecimiento

Verb

judder (third-person singular simple present judders, present participle juddering, simple past and past participle juddered)

1. (intransitive) To spasm or shake violently.
   • 2000, Mark Gatiss, Last of the Gaderene, chapter 20

     Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.

2. (intransitive) To move with a stop-start motion, as if experiencing a strong resistance or when decelerating brusquely.
   • To judder to a halt.

Translations

to spasm or shake violently

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 震动 (zh), 震颤 (zh)

• Danish: bævre
• Dutch: schokken (nl)
• Finnish: kouristella (fi); vavahdella (fi)

• French: secouer (fr), se spasmer (fr), se contracter, convulsionner (fr), ébranler (fr)
• Greenlandic: aalaqqajuppoq
• Italian: scrollare
• Russian: вибри́ровать (ru) (vibrírovatʹ), дрожа́ть (ru) (drožátʹ), колеба́ться (ru) (kolebátʹsja)
• Spanish: sacudir (es), zarandear (es), convulsionar (es), estremecer (es)

See also

• shudder