stut

English

Etymology 1

Cognate with German stützen (“to support”), Dutch stutten (“to support”), Danish støtte (“to support”), Norwegian støtte (“to support”), Swedish støtta (“to support”), Icelandic styðja (“to support”).

Alternative forms

Verb

stut (third-person singular simple present stuts, present participle stutting, simple past and past participle stutted)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England, transitive) To support, prop up.
    When the upper storey of the house was altered the roof had to be stutted up for the time being.

Noun

stut (plural stuts)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A support.
    These stuts buckled.
References

Etymology 2

From Middle English stutten (“to stammer, stop short”), from Old English *stuttan (“to stop short, stutter”), from Proto-Germanic *stutjaną (“to stammer, stop short”). Cognate with German stutzen (“to hesitate, stumble, stop short”).

Verb

stut (third-person singular simple present stuts, present participle stutting, simple past and past participle stutted)

  1. (obsolete) To stutter.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stut in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse stútr. Cognate with Danish stud, Swedish stut, and English stot.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /stʉːt/

Noun

stut m

  1. bull

Inflection
Inflection of stut
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m stut stuten stuter stutene
Nynorsk m stut stuten stutar stutane

Synonyms
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