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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stammer \Stam"mer\ (st[a^]m"m[~e]r), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Stammered} (-m[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Stammering}.] [OE. stameren, fr. AS. stamur, stamer, stammering; akin to D. & LG. stameren to stammer, G. stammeln, OHG. stammal[=o]n, stamm[=e]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 difficulty; to stutter.
I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, adjective Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- {Stam"mer*ing*ly}, adverb
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, noun (Physiol.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is prevented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stammering
adjective: unable to speak freely and easily [syn: {stammering(a)}, {stuttering(a)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "stammering": 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
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