stutter2+ (stuter)

[ Many stutters (we find) are choleric men. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 386. stutterer (stut'er-ér), n. [ His words were never many, as being so extreme a stut terer that he would sometimes hold his tongue out of his mouth a good while before he could speak so much as one word. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Life (ed. Howells), p. 129. stuttering (stut'èr-ing), n. [Verbal n. of stut ter1, v.] A hesitation in speaking, in which there is a spasmodic and uncontrollable reiteration of the same syllable. See stammering. stutteringly (stut'er-ing-li), adv. In a stuttering manner; with stammering.