different between shudder vs judder

English

Etymology

From Middle English *shudderen, *schuderen (suggested by Middle English shuddering, schudering (“shaking, quivering, shuddering”)), from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *skewd?-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• Homophone: shutter (accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)
• Hyphenation: shud?der

Noun

shudder (plural shudders)

1. A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
2. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.

Synonyms

• (shivering tremor): jiggle, quake, rumble, quiver
• (frisson): shiver (cold), quiver, tingle, thrill

Translations

Verb

shudder (third-person singular simple present shudders, present participle shuddering, simple past and past participle shuddered)

1. (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
2. (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

Synonyms

• (shake nervously): palpitate, shiver, shake, quake
• (vibrate jerkily): flutter, jiggle, shake, wiggle

Translations

See also

• judder

References

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)

Noun

judder (countable and uncountable, plural judders)

1. A spasmodic shaking.
2. (television) Jerky playback caused by converting between frame rates; telecine judder

Translations

Verb

judder (third-person singular simple present judders, present participle juddering, simple past and past participle juddered)

1. (intransitive) To spasm or shake violently.
   • 2000, Mark Gatiss, Last of the Gaderene, chapter 20

     Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.

2. (intransitive) To move with a stop-start motion, as if experiencing a strong resistance or when decelerating brusquely.

   To judder to a halt

Translations

See also

• shudder