stammer
English
Etymology
From Old English stamerian, from Proto-Germanic *stamrōną (“to stammer”). Compare German stammeln, Dutch stameren, Old Norse stammr.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æmə(r)
- Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Verb
stammer (third-person singular simple present stammers, present participle stammering, simple past and past participle stammered)
- (intransitive) To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
- (transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.
- He blushed, and stammered a few words of apology.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:
- The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.
Synonyms
Translations
to stutter
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Noun
stammer (plural stammers)
- The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.
Translations
involuntary repetition of sounds in speech
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External links
- “stammer” in the Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
stammer c
Verb
stammer
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
stammer m
Verb
stammer
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Noun
stammer m or f
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