balbutiate
English
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editEtymology
editLatin balbutire, from balbus (“stammering”): compare French balbutier.
Verb
editbalbutiate (third-person singular simple present balbutiates, present participle balbutiating, simple past and past participle balbutiated)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To stammer.
- 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
- five times in foure and twenty houres praying (or rather balbutiating) orderly
References
edit- “balbutiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.