stotter

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To stagger; totter; stumble Northern-England,Scotland,dialectal,intransitive
    — 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.

词形变化

stotters present,singular,third-person stottering participle,present stottered participle,past stottered past stowter alternative stauter alternative stawter alternative

词源

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”).
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