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stammer

[stam-er]

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verb (used without object)

to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
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verb (used with object)

to say with a stammer (often followed byout ).

noun

a stammering mode of utterance.
a stammered utterance.

stammer

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verb

to speak or say (something) in a hesitant way, esp as a result of a speech disorder or through fear, stress, etc

noun

a speech disorder characterized by involuntary repetitions and hesitations

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Other Word Forms

stammerer noun
stammeringly adverb
unstammering adjective
unstammeringly adverb
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ˈ��ٲ��Բ�ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stammer¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English verb stammeren, Old English stamerian (cognate with German stammern ), equivalent to stam “s�ٲ��Բ�” + -erian -er ⁶; akin to Old Norse stamma “to stammer,” Gothic stams “s�ٲ��Բ�”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stammer¹

Old English stamerian ; related to Old Saxon ��ٲ��ō�� , Old High German stamm

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Synonym Study

Stammer, stutter mean to speak with some form of difficulty. Stammer, the general term, suggests a speech disfluency that results in broken or inarticulate sounds and sometimes in complete stoppage of speech; it may be temporary, caused by sudden excitement, confusion, embarrassment, or other emotion, or it may be persistent and require speech therapy for its correction. Stutter, the parallel term preferred in technical usage, designates a broad range of speech production disturbances that produce spasmodic interruptions of the speech rhythm, repetitions, or prolongations of sounds or syllables: The child's stutter was no mere stammer of embarrassment.

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Before the premiere, they were chauffeured around in festival-sponsored BMWs and now their friends are stammering how much they like their shoes.

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"I do worry about if people pity me with a speech impediment. If people pity me that means my stammer defines me, which it doesn't - but it's a part of me."

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That does, however, make it all the more difficult to look at America and resist the temptation to give one last stammering cry of, “That’s all folks!”

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Min entertains her family with her stories, but when she develops a stammer, she retreats.

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It was all so traumatic he developed a stammer that lasted into his teens.

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When To Use

�� does stammer mean?

To stammer is to speak with involuntary breaks or pauses or involuntarily repeated words or parts of words. In text, it is often represented with hyphens, as in s-s-s-safe to represent a struggle to pronounce the s- sound.A stammer is a way of speaking with a stammer, as in Kim spoke with a stammer, but it didn’t define him.To stammer is also to say something with a stammer, as in Lawrence was so nervous during his presentation that he stammered out the first part of his speech.Stutter is a synonym of stammer and is preferred in technical usage.Example: Everytime we have to present to the board, I get so nervous that I start to stammer.

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