stammer

From Middle English stameren, from Old English stamerian, from Proto-West Germanic *stamrōn, from Proto-Germanic *stamrōną (“to stammer”). Compare German stammeln, Dutch stameren, Old Norse stammr. Doublet of stumble.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstæmə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstæmɚ/
• Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

stammer (third-person singular simple present stammers, present participle stammering, simple past and past participle stammered)

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

   Synonyms: (chiefly Britain, dialectal, archaic) hacker, stutter

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.

stammer (plural stammers)

1. The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.

   She said goodbye in a stammer.

2. A speech defect whereby someone speaks with a stammer

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “stammer”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• stremma

stammer c

1. indefinite plural of stamme

stammer

1. present of stamme

stammer m

1. indefinite plural of stamme

stammer

1. present tense of stamme

• stammar

stammer m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of stamme