Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Stammering.
  • noun A vicious and incomplete pronunciation, in which almost all the consonants are replaced by b and l.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.

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  • noun medicine, obsolete stammering

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