Stutter vs Scutter - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between stutter and scutter

is that stutter is to speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds while scutter is to void thin excrement.

is that stutter is a speech disorder characterised by stuttering while scutter is thin excrement.

(wikipedia stutter)

(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 .

* (speak with spasmodic repetition) stammer

(en noun)

A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

(obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer.

(Francis Bacon)

* stammer

* covert stutter * pseudostuttering * stutterer English reporting verbs

(en noun)

Thin excrement.

* 1922 , (James Joyce), (Telemachus episode):

Scutter! he cried thickly.

(en verb)

To void thin excrement.

* 1565 , Alois Brandl (ed.), King Daryus :

Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter.
Here, take some, it will make thee to scutter .

To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.

We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.

* bullscutter * scutterer