stammer

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see also: Stammer

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈstæmə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈstæmɚ/

Verb

stammer (stammers, present participle stammering; past and past participle stammered)

1. (intransitive) To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
2. (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

• stutter

Translations

• French: balbutier, bégayer
• German: stammeln, stottern
• Italian: balbettare, tartagliare
• Portuguese: gaguejar
• Russian: заика́ться
• Spanish: tartamudear, balbucir, balbucear, gaguear (Latin America)

Noun

stammer (plural stammers)

1. The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.

Translations

• French: bégaiement
• German: Stottern
• Italian: balbettio
• Portuguese: gaguejo
• Russian: заика́ние
• Spanish: tartamudeo

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Stammer

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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