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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1665

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Stutting, vbl. n. [Late ME and e.m.E. stutinge (c1430), stuttynge (Cath. Angl.); Stut v.] Stuttering. —c1665 Select Biographies I 346.
He had a great impediment in his speech, and stutting so as one could hardly understand what he said

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