The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stuttering \Stut"ter*ing\, n.
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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stuttering \Stut"ter*ing\, a.
Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering. -- Stut"ter*ing*ly,
adv.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stutter \Stut"ter\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Stuttered; p. pr.
& vb. n. Stuttering.] [Freq. of stut, OE. stoten; probably
of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G.
stottern, D. stooten to push, to strike; akin to G. stossen,
Icel. stauta, Sw. st["o]ta, Dan. st["o]de, Goth. stautan, L.
tundere, Skr. tud to thrust. Cf. Contuse, Obtuse.]
To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with
spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
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Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor.
--Macaulay.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "stuttering":
balbutient, balbuties, battology, ceaseless, ceaselessness,
chattering, constancy, constant, constant flow, continual,
continualness, continuity, dysphemia, expletive, faltering,
filling, halting, hesitating, hesitation, incessancy, incessant,
machine gun, macrology, noninterruption, oscillating, oscillation,
padding, palilalia, perennial, perpetual, perpetuity, pleonasm,
pulsating, pulsation, quick fire, rapid, rapid fire,
rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, redundancy, regular,
regularity, repeated, repetition, staccato, stammer, stammering,
steadiness, steady, stumbling, stutter, sustained, sustainment,
tattoo, tautologism, tautology, traulism, unbroken, unceasing,
unchanging, unintermission, unintermitted, unintermittent,
unintermitting, uninterrupted, uninterruption, unremitting,
unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, vibration