stutter

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Here, Director Gregory Hoblit and the production crew talk about the making of the film, with a focus on Norton's performance and what he brought to the character of Aaron Stampler (the stutter was apparently Norton's invention).

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  1. intransitive and transitive verb To speak or utter with a spasmodic repetition or prolongation of sounds.
  2. noun The act or habit of stuttering.

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  • Alleyn noticed again her curious little stutter, and the trick she had of letting her voice die and then catching it up on an intake of breath. —  Artists in Crime - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 06: 1938
  • Things started to stutter, and as they did, the ones who tried to keep it going lost hope or were seduced by the change and then everything pretty much ran down. —  ChallengingDestiny#24:August2007
  • Screams mingled with the stutter, and the flat crack of rifle fire joined in. —  Kahawa
  • I cannot “speak”; I can only gasp and writhe and stutter, a spectacle to gods and fashionables,—being forced to it by want of money. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • "As the largest support organization for people who stutter, the National Stuttering Association advocates research into effective treatment for stuttering," said Jim McClure, media relations director for the association.
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Frequentative of dialectal stut, from Middle English stutten.

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  1. from Middle English *stoteren = Dutch stotteren = Middle Low German stoteren, Low German stötern, stöttern (later G. stottern) = Swedish dial. stutra, stutter; freq. of stut.
  2. from stutter, v.
  3. from stut + -er.
 

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