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▪ I. stuttering, vbl. n.|ˈstʌtərɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of stutter v.
1594Parsons Confer. Success. i. viii. 168 Luys the second, surnamed le begue, for his stuttering. c1618Moryson Itin. iv. v. v. (1903) 482 Nicknames, given them from the Colour of their haire, from lameness, stuttering, diseases or villanous inclinations, which they disdayne not. 1741Mrs. Montagu Lett. I. 290 We must cure people of errors and lying, as they do of stuttering, by a long course of silence.
b. transf. and fig.
1665Glanvill Def. Van. Dogm. 85 Yea, and..persecuted them by his reproaches, calling the Philosophy of Empedocles, and all the Antients Stuttering. 191119th Cent. Jan. 126 In the case of some of the older carillons the apparent hesitation or ‘stuttering’ (to use the bell-maker's phrase), which is due to the imperfect mechanism, has a quaint and pleasing effect.
▪ II. ˈstuttering, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That stutters. Also transf. and fig.
1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. Ded., As farre as Will Solnes stuttring pronunciation may stumble ouer at a breath. 1594Parsons Confer. Success. i. viii. 168 This Luys, the stuttering, left two bastard sonnes. 1598Marston Pygmal., Reactio 67 Who cannot stumble in a stuttering stile? And shallow heads with seeming shades beguile? a1647Boyle Wks. (1744) I. Life 6 Some children whose stuttering habitude he so long counterfeited that at last he contracted it. a1721Prior Journ. Copt-Hall 26 Wks. 1907 ii. 287 Sung to Stuttring Durfey's Ge sol re. 1786Burgoyne Heiress i. i, Like a Miss at her stuttering harpsichord, with a nimble finger, but no ear. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 197 The intensity of the rhonchus..the stuttering sound of the pectoriloquy..are additional signs which in most cases leave no room for doubt. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 450 Imitation, as from a stuttering nurse, is an occasional cause [of stuttering]. a1918W. Owen Poems (1963) 44 Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. 1946D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist iv. 44 Turning out editorials of a rare charm and delicate fancy while the stuttering telegraph battered on his eardrums. 1980L. Cody Dupe iii. 23 Even Selwyn's stuttering typewriter was silent.
Hence ˈstutteringly adv.
1563–83Foxe A. & M. 2010/1 Then did the vnder Sheriffe bid him say the Lordes prayer, which he coulde not say neyther, but stutteringly. 1615Crooke Body of Man 701 Those which be halfe deafe do speak but stutteringly. 1876Meredith Beauch. Career III. xii. 229 Colonel Halkett argued stutteringly with the powerful man. |