stotter

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of stotter

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, intransitive)To stagger; totter; stumble
    “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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Etymology

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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