Stutter

Definition: Stutter

Stutter

Noun

1. A speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds.

Verb

1. Speak haltingly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stutter" was first used: 1570. (references)

Synonyms: Stutter

Stammering

Verb: stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate, balbucinate, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.

Crosswords: Stutter

You stutter too? (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed)

You know what you do then you forget, you block it out If you want to be happy don't think if you stutter don't talk. (Kids; writing credit: Larry Clark; Harmony Korine)

I used to stutter all the time when I was a kid. (It; writing credit: Stephen King; Lawrence D. Cohen)

You know you don't stutter all the time? (It; writing credit: Stephen King; Lawrence D. Cohen)

I spit and stutter stuff and clutter (Promise; performing artist: Eve 6)

Don't stutter when he talk (Chuck E's in love; performing artist: Rickie Lee Jones)

Stutter (performing artist: Joe)

Stutter (performing artist: Mystikal)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• "Stutter Cure" Never Stutter Again (reference)

• Advice to Those Who Stutter (reference)

• Hocket Stutter (reference)

• Sometimes I Just Stutter (reference)

• Stutter Monk (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• T.D. Jakes: A Stick and a Stutter (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stutter [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

• Stutter [US CD5/Cassette] [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

He began to stutter like a madman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Boys are three times more likely to stutter than girls. (references)

It is estimated that over three million Americans stutter. (references)

Many individuals who stutter have become successful in careers that require public speaking. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "stutter": have a stutter ♦ stutter out. Additional references.

Beginning with "stutter": stutter-gun.

Albanian

më mbahet goja, belbëzoj (falter, flounder, haw, splutter, stammer), belbëzim (flounder, haw, splutter, stammering, titubation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فأفأة (stammer), ‏فأفأ (stammer), ‏نطق بتمتمة, ‏تمتمة (mumbling, murmur, mutter, muttering, stammer, stammering, stuttering), ‏تمتم (babble, gibber, mumble, mutter, stammer, stutter out), ‏تلعثم (falter, fumble, gibber, halt, hem, hum and haw, jerk, stammer, stumble, trip), ‏تأتأ (stammer). (various references)

Bulgarian 

говоря смутено, говоря неуверено (falter), заекване (hesitance, hesitancy, stammer), заеквам (falter, hesitate, stammer), пелтечене (stammer), пелтеча (hesitate, splutter, stammer). (various references)

Chinese 

口吃 (stammer). (various references)

Czech

zajíkat se (falter, hesitate, speak hesitantly), zajíkání (falter), koktat (stammer), koktání, breptat (natter). (various references)

Danish

stammen (psellism, stammering, stuttering, syllabic anarthria). (various references)

Dutch

stotteren (stammer), stamelen (stammer), hakkelen (stammer). (various references)

Esperanto

balbuti (stammer). (various references)

Faeroese

stama (stammer). (various references)

Farsi 

لکنت داشتن (Stumble), لکنت (Stammer), بالکنت حرف زدن . (various references)

Finnish

kangertaa (stammer, stumble in one's speech), änkytys (stammer), änkyttää (stammer). (various references)

French

balbutier (stammer, stammer out), bégayer (stammer, stutter out), bégaiement (stammer, stammering, stuttering). (various references)

German

stottern (kick, splutter, sputter, stammer, stutterer). (various references)

Greek 

βραδυγλωσσία (drawl), τραυλίζω (falter, gibber, haw, lisp, splutter, stammer), ψελλίζω (lisp, mumble, stammer). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'מ�'ם (hum and haw, muffle, splutter, stammer), �'מ�'ום (hesitation, splutter, sputter, stammer, stammering). (various references)

Hungarian

hebegés (halt, stammer), dadogás (stammer), dadog (falter, stammer, to stammer, to stutter). (various references)

Indonesian

menggagap, gelagapan (confused, flustered, stammer), gagap (stammer), bergagap (hurriedly, in a hurry, stammer). (various references)

Italian

tartagliare (stammer), balbuzie (stammer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

吃り (a stammer, a stutter, faltering), 吃る (to stammer, to stutter), ぷりぷり�'る (angrily, be flurried, bending, completely exhausted, in a huff, in an angry mood, in anger, loss of strength, to be exhausted, to be in a huff, to be worn out, to become perverse, to get angry, to lose heart, to stutter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

どもり (a stammer, a stutter, faltering, gradation), どもる (to stammer, to stutter), へどもどする (be flurried, to stutter). (various references)

Manx

loayrt dy thittagh (lisp, lisping, stammer, stammering), loayrt dy moandagh (fumble, lisp, stammering), loayrt dy cabbagh (stammer, stammering), cabbid (inarticulateness, stammer), abbyr dy moandagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

utterstay

Portuguese

tartamudear (stammer), gaguejar (burble, falter, flounder, haw, hem, stammer). (various references)

Romanian

se bâlbâi (babble, splatter, stammer), gângãvi (lisp, stammer), bâlbâire (stammer), bâlbâi (splutter, sputter, stammer), avea prune în gurã. (various references)

Russian 

заикаться (stammer, stutters), заикание (titubation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamuckivati (stammer), zamucati, mucati (stammer), mucanje (stammer). (various references)

Spanish

tartamudear (stammer). (various references)

Swedish

stamning, stamma (falter, stammer, stem). (various references)

Turkish

teklemek (act up, hesitate, kick, knock, misfire, skip), kekemelik (impediment, stammer, stammering, stuttering), kekeleyerek söylemek (stammer, stutter out), kekelemek (falter, have a stutter, stammer), gevelemek (hum and haw, mumble, waffle). (various references)

Turkmen 

sakynmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

заїкатися (hesitate, stammer, titubate), заїкання (balbuties, hesitation, hobble, impediment, stammer, stuttering, titubation), затинатися (falter, hobble, stumble). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nó lắp tật nói lắp. (various references)

balbutire. (various references)

stutten. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stutter": stuttered, stutterer, stutterers, stuttering, stutters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stutter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schmutter, Schotter, scutter, seuter, smutter, snutter, statter, stetter, stotter, Stottor, strutter, sttuter, studder, stute, stuter, Stuttard, stuttery, suter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: truest, utters.

-2 letters: strut, sturt, trets, trues, trust, utter.

-3 letters: erst, rest, rets, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, sett, stet, suer, suet, sure, test, tets, tret, true, tuts, user.

-4 letters: ers, res, ret, rue, rut, ser, set, sue, tet, tut, use, uts.

-5 letters: er, es, et, re, us, ut.

+1 letter: ruttiest, strutted, strutter, stutters.

+2 letters: restitute, strutters, stuttered, stutterer, troutiest, trustiest, uttermost.

+3 letters: attributes, butterfats, butteriest, butternuts, instituter, outfitters, outstarted, outstretch, prostitute, quartettes, restituted, restitutes, stutterers, stuttering, triturates, uttermosts.

+4 letters: antitruster, attenuators, autorotates, butterworts, entrustment, featurettes, instituters, outglitters, prostituted, prostitutes, reinstitute, restituting, restitution, sternutator, stonecutter, trustbuster.

+5 letters: antitrusters, attributives, butterscotch, counterstate, curettements, entrustments, litterateurs, misattribute, outstretched, outstretches, reattributes, reconstitute, reinstituted, reinstitutes, restitutions, sternutation, sternutators, stonecutters, stouthearted, tortuosities, trustbusters, ultraleftist.