halting

English

Adjective

halting (comparative more halting, superlative most halting)

  1. Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.
    his halting speech
    her halting steps
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.
    • 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Flame on the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 28:
      Her husband spoke to the Indian in halting Sioux, but Horse Ears was wise. He did not answer.

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halting

  1. present participle and gerund of halt

Noun

halting (plural haltings)

  1. The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.
    • 1841, George Mogridge, Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old Humphrey, page 167:
      But alas ! alas ! the faintings, the haltings, the back-slidings of Christians, are enough to make us tremble while we rejoice in the hope set before us.

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