Obs. [f. STUT v.1 + -ING1.] = STUTTERING vbl. sb.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, III. xxxii. (1869), 153. Swich manere of langwetynge and of stutinge and turnynge vpsodoun þe wrong in to þe riht.
1483. Cath. Angl., 370/2. A Stuttynge, balbicies.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, xli. 21. As stuttynge that doth come by nature it can not be holpen except it be reformed in youth by some discrete tutor.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. v. 3. Under the first sort he betokeneth a confused stutting [L. confusum strepitum].
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. iii. I. i. 231. Stutting, or tripping in speech, &c. hollow eyes, grosse veines, and broad lippes.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 386, marg. Experiment Solitary, touching Stutting.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 359. Stutting and stammering from humidity.
