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balbutiating

balbutiating is the present participle and gerund of balbutiate.

Meaning of balbutiate

Verb

balbutiate (third-person singular simple present balbutiates, present participle balbutiating, simple past and past participle balbutiated)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To stammer.
    • five times in foure and twenty houres praying (or rather balbutiating) orderly1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC

Questions about balbutiating

What is balbutiating the present participle and gerund of?
Balbutiating is the present participle and gerund of balbutiate.

Words near balbutiating in the dictionary

  1. Balbuena
  2. Balbuenas
  3. balbutiate
  4. balbutiated
  5. balbutiates
  6. balbutiating
  7. balbutient
  8. balbuties
  9. Balby
  10. balc'nies
  11. balc'ny

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