[f. STUTTER v. + -ER1.] One who stutters.
1598. Marston, Sco. Villanie, III. ix. G 8 b. The vildest stumbling stutterer That euer back’d and hew’d our natiue tongue.
c. 1643. Ld. Herbert, Autobiog. (1824), 187. His words were never many as being so extreme a stutterer, that he would sometimes hold his tongue out of his mouth a good while before he could speak so much as one word.
1771. Smollett, Humphry Cl., 10 June (1815), 152. The stutterer had almost finished his travels.
1822–9. Good, Study Med., I. 566. Children … ought never to be intrusted in the company of a stutterer, till their speech has become steady and confirmed.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 449. It is the difficulty of performing the necessary movements of the tongue and lips which usually obtrudes itself on a stutterer’s attention.
