stammer

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  1. intransitive verb To speak with involuntary pauses or repetitions.
  2. transitive verb To utter with involuntary pauses or repetitions.
  3. noun A way of speaking characterized by involuntary pauses or repetitions.

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  • He showed his joy especially when he saw Christophe, involved in some argument and heckled by Spitz, flounder about, stammer, and stutter with anger, until he had found the word he was seeking,—a rock with which to crush his adversary. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • I could think of no remark that did not begin with a stammer, and she seemed interested only in watching me. —  DarklyDreamingDexter
  • Obviously Obama's famous stammer, his uncontrollable ums and ahs on top of his inauspicious —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • Obviously Obama's famous stammer, his uncontrollable ums and ahs on top of his inauspicious "lip stick on a pig" comment has caused the campaign to reign in their inarticulate (once on his own and off the prompter) candidate. —  RVABlogs
  • Look at the reports: the bulletins are confused; the commentaries are entangled; the latter stammer, the former stutter. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English stameren, from Old English stamerian.

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  1. English dial. also stamber; from Middle English stameren = Dutch stameren, stamelen = Old High German stammalōn, stamalōn, Middle High German stameln, stammeln, German stammern, stammeln, stammer; a freq. verb, associated with Anglo-Saxon stamer, stamor, stamur, stomer = Old High German stamal, stammal, adjective, stammering, and equivalent to the simple verb, Icelandic Swedish stamma, Danish stamme, stammer, from the adjective appearing in Old High German stam, German stumm, mute, = Icelandic stamr = Gothic (Moesogothic) stamms, stammering; perhaps connected with stem, obstruct, etc.: see stem, and cf. stam. Cf. also stumble.
  2. later stammer, v.
 

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