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See also: støtter

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From Middle English stoteren (compare also participle Middle English staterand (staggering; tottering; stumbling)), a frequentative form of Middle English stoten (to stumble), related to Dutch stoten (to push; bump; butt; stumble against), German stoßen (to push; butt; knock; bump), Icelandic stauta (to struggle through; pound; grind), equivalent to stut +‎ -er (frequentative suffix).

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stotter (third-person singular simple present stotters, present participle stottering, simple past and past participle stottered)

  1. (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To stagger; totter; stumble
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.

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stotter

  1. inflection of stotteren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

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stotter

  1. inflection of stottern:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative