Слово "stutter". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

And he peeped at them no more; but their soft, rapid talk came to his ears, with the stuttering song of some bird who seemed trying to remember the notes of spring: Joy—tragedy?

I wondered about the house-mother with her red-blotched face, and the stuttering shop teacher, and the motherly principal, and youthful tired-looking psycholo­gist, and wished I knew how they had found their way here to work and dedicate themselves to these silent minds.

He stuttered several times, closed his mouth and opened it again, and again became geranium colored.

  A brusque question caused him to stutter to the point of suffocation.   When startled by anything perplexing he used to squint horribly.

Greg stuttered and said,

He leans down and glares so hard at Billy that Billy feels compelled to stutter out that he isn’t the buh-buh-buh-bull goose loony yet, though he’s next in luh-luh-line for the job.