Juddering
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Judder is an intransitive verb which means to shake and shudder violently. It is a term most generally used to describe the behavior of machinery in extreme conditions just before failure. Tony Blair's economy has been described thus<ref>http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4459656</ref>. The rapid repeating of a phrase of music by an electronic playback device has also been described this way<ref>http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-10153-0.html?forumID=98&threadID=187819&messageID=2040727</ref>, as well as the behavior of an automobile<ref>http://www.4x4uk.org/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=16&id=53&artlang=en and http://www.vectorbd.com/peugeot/archive/20n/2004/Jun/0000.html</ref>, and scorpions during their mating dance<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion</ref>.
This word appears to be common in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Nations, but is unfamiliar (except perhaps by inference) to most Americans.
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