Stutter definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

If someone has a stutter, they find it difficult to say the first sound of a word, and so they often hesitate or repeat it two or three times. He spoke with a ... EnglishDictionary Thesaurus WordLists Grammar EnglishEasyLearningGrammar GrammarPatterns EnglishUsage TeachingResources VideoGuides Conjugations Sentences Video LearnEnglish Videopronunciations Buildyourvocabulary Quiz Englishgrammar Englishcollocations Englishconfusables Englishidioms Englishusage Thematicwordlists English French German Italian Spanish Portuguese Hindi Chinese Korean Japanese Definitionof 'stutter'    WordFrequency Share× Credits× stutter (stʌtəʳ ) Wordforms:plural,3rdpersonsingularpresent tensestutters ,presentparticiplestuttering ,pasttense,pastparticiplestuttered 1. countablenoun[usuallysingular] Ifsomeonehasastutter,theyfinditdifficulttosaythefirstsoundofaword,andsotheyoftenhesitateorrepeatittwoorthreetimes. Hespokewithapronouncedstutter. 2. verb Ifsomeonestutters,theyhavedifficultyspeakingbecausetheyfindithardtosaythefirstsoundofaword. Iwastremblingsohard,IthoughtIwouldstutterwhenIspoke.[VERB] stuttering uncountablenounHehadtostoptalkingbecauseifhe'dkepton,thestutteringwouldhavestarted. 3. verb Ifsomethingstuttersalong,itprogressesslowlyandunevenly. Theoldtruckstutteredalongthewindingroad.[VERBpreposition/adverb] Thepoliticaldebatestutterson.[VERBpreposition/adverb] COBUILDAdvancedEnglishDictionary.Copyright©HarperCollinsPublishers Youmayalsolike EnglishQuizConfusables Synonymsof'stutter' LanguageLover'sBlog FrenchTranslationof'stutter' Translateyourtext PronunciationPlaylists Wordoftheday:'colcannon' HindiTranslationof'stutter' NEWfromCollins! EnglishGrammar CollinsApps WordFrequency stutterinBritishEnglish (ˈstʌtə ) verb1. tospeak(aword,phrase,etc)withrecurringrepetitionofconsonants,espinitialones 2. tomake(anabruptsound)repeatedly thegunstuttered noun3. theactorhabitofstuttering 4. astutteringsound CollinsEnglishDictionary.Copyright©HarperCollinsPublishers Derivedformsstutterer(ˈstutterer)noun stuttering(ˈstuttering)noun,adjective stutteringly(ˈstutteringly)adverb WordoriginC16:relatedtoMiddleLowGermanstötern,OldHighGermanstōzantopushagainst,Latintunderetobeat WordFrequency stutterinAmericanEnglish (ˈstʌtər ) verbtransitive,verbintransitive1.  stammer 2.  tomake(aseriesofrepeatedsounds) stutteringmachineguns noun3.  theactoraninstanceofstuttering Webster’sNewWorldCollegeDictionary,4thEdition.Copyright©2010by HoughtonMifflinHarcourt.Allrightsreserved. Derivedformsstutterer(ˈstutterer) noun Wordoriginfreq.ofdial.stut,tostutter