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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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stotter
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styter
verb
stagger, stotter, stumble:
There were drunk men coming on, stottering on top of fires, arguing with each other.
19-
.
etymology:
a development from Scots
stot
‘to bounce’; attested by
DW
; form
styter
attested by
ET