mammer

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English mameren (“to hesitate, be undecided, waver, mutter”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English māmrian, māmorian (“to think through, deliberate, plan out, design”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *maimrōną (“to take care, worry”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *smer- (“to fall into thought, remember, take care”). Related to Old English māmor (“deep thought, deep sleep, unconsciousness”), Old English mimorian (“to remember”), Dutch mijmeren (“to ponder, muse”). More at remember.

Verb

mammer (third-person singular simple present mammers, present participle mammering, simple past and past participle mammered)

1. (rare) To hesitate.

   Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny, Or stand so mammering on — Shakespeare, Othello.

2. (rare) To mumble or stammer from doubt or hesitation.

Derived terms

• mammery
• mammering

Translations

To mumble or stammer

• Russian: неуверенно (ru) (neuverenno) мямлить (ru) (mjamlitʹ)
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