Stuttering vs Shuttering - What's the difference?
stuttering | shuttering |
A speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and by involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds.
An instance of stuttering.
That stutters.
(figuratively) Hesitant.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
As verbs the difference between stuttering and shuttering
is that stuttering is present participle of stutter while shuttering is present participle of lang=en.As a noun stuttering
is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and by involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds.As an adjective stuttering
is that stutters.stuttering
English
(wikipedia stuttering)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* stammeringDerived terms
* covert stutteringVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Relieved Chelsea halted their worst run of form since 1999 as a stuttering victory over Bolton gave the champions a first league win in seven matches}}