| 单词 |
thutter |
| 释义 |
thutter, v.|ˈθʌtə(r)| [Echoic; cf. twitter, stutter; also OE. þoterian to howl, wail.] intr. To make the sputtering or shaking sound suggested by the word. Hence ˈthuttering ppl. a.
1897Kipling Capt. Cour. (ed. Tauchn.) 12 Blowing through a big conch-shell, he must needs stand up..and send a grinding, thuttering shriek through the fog. 1904― Traffics & Discov. 370 The old mill shook and the heavy stones thuttered on the grist. 1905J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide vii. 139 There boomed out of the dark a thuttering, shaking roar, that swelled to a shriek and died away—the voice of the great steam foghorn. |

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