Definition of Stammer

1. Noun. A speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds.

Exact synonyms: Stutter
Generic synonyms: Defect Of Speech, Speech Defect, Speech Disorder
Derivative terms: Stutter

2. Verb. Speak haltingly. "Sam and Sue stammer"; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"
Exact synonyms: Bumble, Falter, Stutter
Generic synonyms: Mouth, Speak, Talk, Utter, Verbalise, Verbalize
Derivative terms: Falter, Stammerer, Stutter, Stutterer

Definition of Stammer

1. v. i. To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.

2. v. t. To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.

3. n. Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.

Definition of Stammer

1. Verb. To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily. ¹

2. Noun. The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stammer

1. to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Stammer

1. 1. To hesitate in speech, halt, repeat, and mispronounce, by reason of embarrassment, agitation, unfamiliarity with the subject, or as yet unidentified physiologic causes. Compare: stutter. 2. To mispronounce or transpose certain consonants in speech. Origin: A.S. Stamur (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stammer

staminal
staminas
staminate
stamineal
stamineous
staminiferous
staminode
staminodes
staminodia
staminodies
staminodium
staminody
staminophore
stammel
stammels
stammer (current term)
stammered
stammerer
stammerers
stammering
stammering(a)
stammering of the bladder
stammeringly
stammers
stamnoi
stamnos
stamp
stamp-collecting
stamp album
stamp battery

Literary usage of Stammer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"When the difficulty is to produce voice to begin the vowel, the stammer is vocal ; and when the difficulty is to change the adjustment from that for the ..."

2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"Speech stammer is of two kind-. i. Enunciative, or difficulty to produce the elementary sounds. ii. Articulative, or difficulty to join them together. i. ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"To stammer is used in the N. of E. and Scotland in the sense of stumble or stagger. Fr. chanceler, to stagger, also to stammer.—Cot. ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"The comets of 1812 and 1846, as has been shown, are both liable to great perturbation by Venus. HOW WE SNEEZE, LAUGH, stammer, AND SIGH. ..."

5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1842)
"Of this 1'atter class there is most stammer when the consonant is p, t, A, ... To these general conditions of voice and speech under \vluch stammer occurs, ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Stammer on Dictionary.com!Search for Stammer on Thesaurus.com!Search for Stammer on Google!Search for Stammer on Wikipedia!

Search

Translations