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stuttery en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From stutter + -y.

Meanings

  1. (informal) Tending to stutter.
    • For 27.636 GB of your Switch's file space, you can play the choppiest and stutteriest mess of a version of Arkham Knight, a game that lets you traverse an open world city, like many other Switch games and ports. 2024 February 28, Astral-Grain, “Batman: Arkham Knight Still Runs Poorly On Switch Despite Massive Update” (comment #35), in Nintendo Life, Loughborough, Leicestershire: Hookshot Media, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2024:
    • Moving on to the Samsung Daily screen, this is still by far the laggiest, stutteriest part of the entire software. 2021 February 1, GSMArena Team, “Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra long-term review”, in Orlin Milinov, editor, GSMArena, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2021:
    • A buggier, stutterier, glitchier game I have never seen. 2001 May 2, grymwish@newsguy.com, “Omigod TP2k1 and HH2k2 both totally suck!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports (Usenet), archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
    • All cues are triggered from midi timecode. everything runs smoothly at startup then the machine slowly gets clunkier and clunkier with the video getting gradually more^([sic]) stutterier (not a word) over time. 2015 June 9, espressodr, “Memory leak??”, in QLab (Google Groups), archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stutterier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
stutteriest Degree=Sup lexicographic