stutter
verb
[ ˈstʌtə ]
• talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants.
• "the child was stuttering in fright"
Similar:
stammer,
stumble,
speak haltingly,
falter,
speak falteringly,
flounder,
hesitate,
pause,
halt,
blunder,
splutter,
fluff one's lines,
stutter
noun
• a tendency to stutter while speaking.
• "‘She's p-perfectly j-justified,’ he said with his intermittent stutter"
Origin:
late 16th century (as a verb): frequentative of dialect stut, of Germanic origin; related to German stossen ‘strike against’.
