stutter

He stutters and struts downcourt as if he’s on a playground.

Soon, however, he wrote a piece about a stutter that plagued him during his youth.

India stuttered but still won with four wickets and 33 balls remaining.

The economy has stuttered and stumbled and critics have argued a sense of gloom and pessimism from ministers over the summer and into the autumn made matters worse.

A stuttering economy, spiralling government borrowing costs, plummeting approval ratings: little wonder perhaps senior ministers, not least the chancellor, aren't wasting many smiles these days.