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Stammering definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STAMMERING, ppr.
1. Stopping or hesitating in the uttering of syllables and words; stuttering.
2. a. Apt to stammer.
STAMMERING, n. The act of stopping or hesitating in speaking; impediment in speech.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stammering Stam"mer*ing, a. Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stammering Stam"mer*ing, n. (Physiol.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stammer Stam"mer, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stammered; p. pr. & vb. n. Stammering.] [OE. stameren, fr. AS. stamur, stamer, stammering; akin to D. & LG. stameren to stammer, G. stammeln, OHG. stammal?n, stamm?n, Dan. stamme, Sw. stamma, Icel. stama, stamma, OHG. & Dan. stam stammering, Icel. stamr, Goth. stamms, and to G. stemmen to bear against, stumm dumb, D. stom. Cf. Stem to resist, Stumble.] To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see stammer

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Stuttering, faltering, difficulty of utterance.

Moby Thesaurus

balbutient, balbuties, bashful, bashfulness, battology, confused, confusion, conscious, coy, coyness, demure, demureness, demurity, dysphemia, embarrassment, expletive, faltering, filling, halting, hesitating, hesitation, inarticulate, macrology, mousiness, mousy, padding, palilalia, pleonasm, redundancy, self-conscious, self-consciousness, shamefaced, shamefacedness, shamefast, shamefastness, shy, shyness, skittish, skittishness, stagefright, stammer, stumbling, stutter, stuttering, tautologism, tautology, timid, timidity, timidness, timorous, timorousness, traulism