1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]SPEAK A LANGUAGE to speak with difficulty because you cannot stop yourself from repeating the first consonant of some words 结结巴巴地说 → stammer
2[intransitiveI]SOUND if a machinestutters, it keeps making little noises and does not work smoothly 〔机器〕发出突突的噪声,不顺畅地运转
a refrigerator which stuttered and hummed
一台发出突突声且嗡嗡作响的冰箱
Examples from the Corpus
stutter• Other children often teased me because I stuttered.• Now he raised his hand, but when Mason called on him Boris began to stutter.• That night I began to stutter.• The engine was stuttering and cutting out.• There was a small refrigerator which stuttered and hummed in the night, and some kitchen things.• Carterstuttered as a child and burns now with an eloquence that takes him over from time to time.• Savio, a shy man who stuttered before small groups, was riveting and compelling when he spoke to thousands.• A string of shotsstutterednearby.
stutter2 noun [singular]
SPEAK A LANGUAGEan inability to speak normally because you stutter 结巴,口吃SYN stammer