You can think of stutter as sound that will not come out in one piece. Everything upstream is ready — the thought, the sentence, the word — but one sound catches at the front, so it repeats or holds until it finally releases and the rest of the sentence runs on. Hold that picture of a flow that keeps catching and restarting, and both the human and the mechanical uses of the word come from the same place.
From the word’s history
Recorded as coming from Middle English stutten / stoten, and cognate with Dutch stotteren. Words in this group carry a sense of knocking or butting repeatedly, which fits the picture of a sound that pushes, catches, and pushes again.
來源記載為中古英文的 stutten、stoten，跟荷蘭文 stotteren 同源。這一族的字帶著「一下一下頂、撞」的意思，正好對得上「聲音推一次、卡住、再推一次」的畫面。
Wiktionary entry for 'stutter' as supplied in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:466666789): "From Middle English stutten, stoten (stutter); cognate with Dutch stotteren (stutter)."
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stutterverb/ˈstʌtɚ/
- 1
To speak (words) with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
- He stuttered a few words of thanks.
- 2
To expel a gas with difficulty.
- I was stuttering after the marathon.
- The engine of the old car stuttered going up the slope.
stutternoun/ˈstʌtɚ/
- 1
A speech disorder characterized by stuttering.
- 2
obsoleteOne who stutters.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, London: William Lee, IV. Century, p. 103, And many Stutters (we finde) are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the Tongue.
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