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Strutter vs Stutter - What's the difference?

strutter | stutter |

As nouns the difference between strutter and stutter

is that strutter is someone who struts while stutter is a speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

As a verb stutter is

(ambitransitive) to speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

strutter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who struts
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Two Years Ago, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Which is the boaster, the strutter , the bedizener of his sinful carcase with feathers and beads, fox-tails and bears' claws,--the brave, or his poor little squaw? }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Irving Bacheller, title=The Light in the Clearing, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=First there's the Grimshaw o' greed--swinish, heartless greed--the other is the Grimshaw o' vanity--the strutter , with sword at belt, who would have men bow or flee before him." }} English agent nouns

    stutter

    English

    (wikipedia stutter)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
    • He stuttered a few words of thanks.
  • To exhaust a gas with difficulty
    • The engine of the old car stuttered''' going up the slope. I was '''stuttering after the marathon .

    Synonyms

    * (speak with spasmodic repetition) stammer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.
  • (obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * stammer

    Derived terms

    * covert stutter * pseudostuttering * stutterer English reporting verbs