stutteryadj.
/ˈstʌtəri/ Inclined to stutter; also transferred, hesitant, equivocal.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [adjective] > of persons, speech
ambiguous1560
meal-mouthed1570
mealy-mouthed1571
mealy1573
mealmouth1575
Janian1598
equivocant1609
bird-mouthed1610
equivocating1645
Janus-like1656
Janus-faceda1682
equivocatory1821
Samsonian1861
weasel1912
weasel-worded1923
stuttery1937
bet-hedging1971
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
1937 G. Frankau More of Us iii. 34 Where spies the villainess of many an Oppy book On forthright millionaires and statesmen stuttery?
1954 J. Masters Bhowani Junction v. 44 Colonel Savage was able to make me so stuttery and foolish.
1978 Washington Post 27 Sept. b5/4 The broken-brick stuttery glare of Washington at night.
1987 A. Pryce-Jones Bonus of Laughter vi. 71 He was..rather arch at times, with a head-on-one-side stuttery manner.
1990 Newsday 25 May 39/1 One of the more dismal points of the stuttery state budget talks.
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