stut·ter

(stŭt′ər)

intr. & tr.v. stut·tered, stut·ter·ing, stut·ters

To speak or utter with a spasmodic repetition or prolongation of sounds.

The act or habit of stuttering.

[Frequentative of dialectal stut, from Middle English stutten.]

stut′ter·er n.

stut′ter·ing·ly adv.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

stutterer - someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions

stammerer

speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer - someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims"

Translations

مُتأْتِئ

kokta

stammer

Stotterer

bègue

e-r sem stamar

balbuziente

človek, ktorý sa zajakáva

kekeme

口吃者

stutterer

[ˈstʌtərəʳ] N → tartamudo/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

stutterer

n → Stotterer m, → Stotterin f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

stutterer

[ˈstʌtərəʳ] n → balbuziente m/f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

stutter

(ˈstatə) verb

to stammer. He stutters sometimes when he's excited; `I've s-s-seen a gh-gh-ghost,' he stuttered.

noun

a stammer. He has a stutter.

ˈstutterer noun

a person who has a stammer.

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References in classic literature

And this stutterer, won't he turn out a murderer?" she cried, pointing to Burdovsky, who was staring at her with stupefaction.

View in context

All hunchbacks walk with their heads held high, all stutterers harangue, all deaf people speak low.

View in context

In general, therapists employing the new techniques in treating stuttering belong to one of two traditional schools: One school believes that stutterers and nonstutterers fall into two distinct groups and that no adult stutterer can be completely cured.

Stuttering: hope through research

A recent bulletin from the movement lets us know that Porky Pig, formerly a stutterer, should be listed as speech-impaired, whereas Mr.

How do you say it?

Being a stutterer puts one at a distinct social and economic disadvantage.

Helping children who stutter: what teachers need to know

This is the prose of (to borrow a term a critic once applied to Browning as a poet) a "semantic stutterer."

The Brownings' Correspondence, vol. II (July 1845-January 1846, Letters 1982-2177)

A stutterer writing a book about stuttering is like somebody who has been snakebit writing a book about cobras.

Stuttering: A Life Bound Up in Words

I could be a lesbian, folk-dancing, black woman stutterer....

The Joke's on Her

Competing for the attention of listeners is stressful to the stutterer.

Stuttering

He was the son of the archbishop of Canterbury who embraced the Catholic faith, the popular priest who shrank from pastoral duties, the lackluster student who became a dynamic apologist, the chronic stutterer famous for his pulpit oratory, the ascetic celibate who flirted with the fashionable aesthete's cult, the opponent of higher criticism who admired the modernists, and the celebrity convert whose Catholicism "sat but lightly upon him" (192).

Robert Hugh Benson: Life and Works

His/her abilities to communicate and his/her self-identification as a "stutterer," rather than as a "speaker" often influences the individual's attitude about speaking in general, his/her abilities to communicate, and his/her self-identification as a "stutterer" rather that as a "speaker".] It has frequently been reported that adults who stutter view the act of speaking as negative, stressful, and even threatening.

Perspectives on the effects of stuttering on the formation and maintenance of intimate relationships

A stutterer, Sylvere finds his stuttering cured by the shock of the sight, just as it had been brought on by an earlier shock.

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