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stutter

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1. stutter - Noun

2. stutter - Verb

Meaning

To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.

One who stutters; a stammerer.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Language is a form of organized stutter. Marshall McLuhan

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret. Laurie Anderson

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others. John Stossel

He would, when engaged in an animated conversation with a friend, talk quickly and well for a few minutes, and then suddenly and without any very apparent cause would begin to stutter so much, that it was often difficult to understand him. Isa Bowman

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter. Adam Sandler

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood. Nicholas Brendon

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