[-ING2.] That stutters.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc., Ded. As farre as Will Solnes stuttring pronunciation may stumble ouer at a breath.
1594. Parsons, Confer. Success., I. viii. 168. This Luys, the stuttering, left two bastard sonnes.
1598. Marston, Pygmal., Reactio 67. Who cannot stumble in a stuttering stile? And shallow heads with seeming shades beguile?
a. 1647. Boyle, Wks. (1744), I. Life 6. Some children whose stuttering habitude he so long counterfeited that at last he contracted it.
a. 1721. Prior, Journ. Copt-Hall, 26, Wks. 1907, II. 287. Sung to Stuttring Durfey’s Ge sol re.
1786. Burgoyne, Heiress, I. i. Like a Miss at her stuttering harpsichord, with a nimble finger, but no ear.
1834. J. Forbes, Laennec’s Dis. Chest (ed. 4), 197. The intensity of the rhonchus … the stuttering sound of the pectoriloquy … are additional signs which in most cases leave no room for doubt.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 450. Imitation, as from a stuttering nurse, is an occasional cause [of stuttering].
Hence Stutteringly adv.
1563–83. Foxe, A. & M., 2010/1. Then did the vnder Sheriffe bid him say the Lordes prayer, which he coulde not say neyther, but stutteringly.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 701. Those which be halfe deafe do speak but stutteringly.
1876. Meredith, Beauch. Career, III. xii. 229. Colonel Halkett argued stutteringly with the powerful man.
