stuttering

Speech parts

1. stuttering - Noun

2. stuttering - Adjective

3. stuttering - Verb

Meaning

of Stutter

The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.

Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering.

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Examples

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them. Kurt Masur

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. Jean Rostand

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be. John Stossel

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering. Mel Tillis

There are so many different phases of stuttering, and it always breaks my heart. I always wish I could say, 'When I'm done hugging you... your stuttering will be gone. Nicholas Brendon

For the cold of the pistol-butt and the bullet's heat, For the ropes that choke, the manacles that bind, The huge voice, metal, that lies from a thousand tubes And the stuttering machine-gun that answers all. Stephen Vincent Benét

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