Meanings
verbbalbutiate (third-person singular simple present balbutiates, present participle balbutiating, simple past and past participle balbutiated)
present singular third person balbutiates · participle present balbutiating · participle past balbutiated · past balbutiated · alternative balbucinate
- intransitiveobsoleteTo stammer.
five times in foure and twenty houres praying (or rather balbutiating) orderly
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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Latin balbutire, from balbus (“stammering”): compare French balbutier.
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