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stuttery

stuttery adjective: tending to stutter.

Adjective

stuttery (comparative stutterier, superlative stutteriest)

  1. (informal) Tending to stutter.
    • A buggier, stutterier, glitchier game I have never seen.2001 May 2, grymwish@newsguy.com, “Omigod TP2k1 and HH2k2 both totally suck!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports (Usenet), archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025
    • All cues are triggered from midi timecode. everything runs smoothly at startup then the machine slowly gets clunkier and clunkier with the video getting gradually more^([sic]) stutterier (not a word) over time.2015 June 9, espressodr, “Memory leak??”, in QLab (Google Groups), archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025

Forms of stuttery

comparativestutterier
superlativestutteriest

Origin of stuttery

From stutter + -y.

Questions about stuttery

What does stuttery mean?
Stuttery means tending to stutter.
What part of speech is stuttery?
Stuttery is an adjective.

Words near stuttery in the dictionary

  1. stutteriest
  2. stuttering
  3. stutteringly
  4. stutterings
  5. stutters
  6. stuttery
  7. Stuttgard
  8. Stuttgardt
  9. Stuttgart
  10. Stuttgarter
  11. Stuttgarters

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