noun.
Defective utterance; a stutter: as, to be troubled with a stammer. See stammering.
To hesitate or falter in speaking; hence, to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses.
To stumble or stagger.
Synonyms Falter, Stammer, Stutter. He who falters weakens or breaks more or less completely in utterance; the act is occasional, not habitual, and for reasons that are primarily moral, belong to the occasion, and may be various. He who stammers has great difficulty in uttering anything; the act may be occasional or habitual; the cause is confusion, shyness, timidity, or actual fear; the result is broken and inarticulate sounds that seem to stick in the mouth, and sometimes complete suppression of voice. He who stutters makes sounds that are not what he desires to make; the act is almost always habitual, especially in its worst forms; the cause is often excitement; the result is a quick repetition of some one sound that is initial in a word that the person desires to utter, as c-c-c-c-catch.
To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; especially, to utter with involuntary breaks or catches: frequently with out.