单词 | stuttering |
释义 | stutteringn. a. The action of stutter v. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > stammer or stammering stammering1357 wlafferinga1387 mammeringa1425 stuttingc1430 stackeringc1440 stotingc1440 tattling1481 staggering1565 manting1568 maffling1577 stuttering1595 buffing1600 stammeringness1637 titubation1641 balbuties1655 traulism1678 hesitation1709 hammering1731 hobbling1753 stammer1773 mant1801 stutter1843 Hottentotism1871 hesitatingness1890 1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland i. viii. 168 Luys the second, surnamed le begue, for his stuttering. a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. v. 482 Nicknames, giuen them from the Colour of their haire, from lameness, stuttering, diseases, or villanous inclinations, which they disdayne not. 1741 E. Montagu Let. 5 Oct. (1809) I. 290 We must cure people of errors and lying as they do of stuttering, by a long course of silence. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense Let. Aristotle 85 in Scepsis Scientifica Yea, and..persecuted them by his reproaches, calling the Philosophy of Empedocles, and all the Antients Stuttering. 1911 19th Cent. Jan. 126 In the case of some of the older carillons the apparent hesitation or ‘stuttering’ (to use the bell-maker's phrase), which is due to the imperfect mechanism, has a quaint and pleasing effect. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2019). stutteringadj. That stutters. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [adjective] > stammering or stammered wlaffinga1300 stammering1398 stuttinga1425 drotingc1440 stoting1567 maffling1577 hacking1583 stuttering1590 hackeda1603 doubling1605 hesitating1622 balbutient1642 hesitant1647 hesitatorya1734 hesitative1795 stammereda1858 stuttery1937 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall Ded. sig. A2 As farre as Will Solnes stuttring pronunciation may stumble ouer at a breath. 1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland i. viii. 168 This Luys, the stuttering, left two bastard sonnes. 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 67 Who cannot stumble in a stuttering stile? And shallow heads with seeming shades beguile? a1647 R. Boyle Wks. (1744) I. Life 6 Some children whose stuttering habitude he so long counterfeited that at last he contracted it. a1721 M. Prior Journey to Copt-Hall 26, in Wks. (1907) ii. 287 Sung to Stuttring Durfey's Ge sol re. 1786 J. Burgoyne Heiress i. i. 10 Like a Miss at her stuttering harpsicord, with a nimble finger, but no ear. 1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. 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 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 450 Imitation, as from a stuttering nurse, is an occasional cause [of stuttering]. a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 44 Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) iv. 44 Turning out editorials of a rare charm and delicate fancy while the stuttering telegraph battered on his eardrums. 1980 ‘L. Cody’ Dupe iii. 23 Even Selwyn's stuttering typewriter was silent. Derivatives ˈstutteringly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [adverb] > with a stammer drotinglyc1440 stammeringly1545 stuttingly1548 stutteringly1563 falteringa1741 hesitatingly1800 hesitatively1881 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1615/1 Then did the Vnder shriue bidde him say the Lordes prayer, which he coulde not say neither, but stutteringly. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 701 Those which be halfe deafe do speak but stutteringly. 1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career III. xii. 229 Colonel Halkett argued stutteringly with the powerful man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1595adj.1563 |
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