stutter

English

Etymology

From Middle English stutten, stoten (“stutter”); cognate with Dutch stotteren (“stutter”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌtɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)

Verb

stutter (third-person singular simple present stutters, present participle stuttering, simple past and past participle stuttered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

   He stuttered a few words of thanks.

2. (intransitive) To exhaust a gas with difficulty

   The engine of the old car stuttered going up the slope. I was stuttering after the marathon.

Synonyms

• (speak with spasmodic repetition): stammer

Translations

to speak with spasmodic repetition — see stammer

Noun

stutter (plural stutters)

1. A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

   Synonym: stammer

2. (obsolete) One who stutters.

   Synonyms: stutterer, stammerer

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, London: William Lee, IV. Century, p. 103,^[1]

     And many Stutters (we finde) are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the Tongue.

Translations

speech disorder

• Albanian: belbëzimi
• Aragonese: tartameca f
• Armenian: կակազում (hy) (kakazum)
• Asturian: tartayu m, tatexu m
• Basque: hitz-moteltasun
• Bulgarian: зае́кване (zaékvane)
• Catalan: quequeig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口吃 (zh) (kǒuchī)

• Czech: koktání n
• Dutch: stotteren (nl) n
• Esperanto: balbutado
• Finnish: änkytys (fi)
• French: bégaiement (fr) m
• Friulian: balbuzie f
• Galician: tartamudez m
• German: Stottern (de) n
• Greek: τραύλισμα (el) n (trávlisma)
• Hebrew: גמגום‎ (he) m (gimgum)
• Hindi: हकलाहट (hi) f (haklāhaṭ), हकलापन (hi) m (haklāpan), कंठभंग (hi) m (kaṇṭhbhaṅg)
• Hungarian: dadogás (hu)
• Ido: stotero (io)
• Indonesian: gagap (id)
• Interlingua: balbutiamento
• Irish: maolteanga f
• Italian: balbuzie (it) f

• Japanese: 吃り (domori)
• Kapampangan: kakak
• Karelian: eketys
• Kazakh: кекештік (kekeştik)
• Korean: 더듬기 (deodeumgi)
• Latvian: stostīšanās
• Lithuanian: mikčiojimas (lt)
• Lower Sorbian: jěkotanje n, zajěkotanje n
• Manchu: ᡥᡝᠯᡝᡩᡝᠮᠪᡳ (heledembi)
• Navajo: ałtʼaʼndziih
• Polish: jąkanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: gagueira f
• Romanian: bâlbâire
• Romansch: balbegiar m
• Russian: заика́ние (ru) n (zaikánije)
• Sanskrit: कण्ठभङ्ग (sa) m (kaṇṭhabhaṅga)
• Sardinian: achichiadura f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: муцање

  Roman: mucanje (sh)

• Slovak: zajakavosť, koktanie
• Spanish: tartamudeo (es) m
• Swedish: stamning
• Turkish: kekeleme (tr), kekemelik (tr)
• Ukrainian: заїкання (zajikannja)
• Welsh: atal dweud (cy)
• Zazaki: kekezey

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun or verb stutter

• covert stutter

• pseudostuttering

• stutterer

Anagrams

• Truetts, tutters