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stotter1, stoater noun something very good of its kind; a term of admiration for a good-looking girl or woman: Three big lads just like their father, and two wee stotters, the spit of their mother. la20-. etymology: a development from Scots stot ‘to bounce’; attested by JS note:

Lexicon Balatronicum (1811) and Grose and Egan (1823) attest ‘stoter’ as ‘A great blow.’