Stammer
['stæmə] or ['stæmɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds.
Typist: Miguel--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(v. t.) To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.
(n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.
Typed by Barnaby
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Stutter, hesitate (in speaking), falter, haw, hum and haw.
n. Stutter, hesitate, falter.
Typed by Ernestine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stutter, hesitate, falter
ANT:Speak_clearly, {speak_unhesitatingly}
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Definition
v.i. to halt in one's speech the result of failure in co-ordinate action of certain muscles and their appropriate nerves: to falter in speaking: to stutter.—v.t. to utter with hesitation.—n. hesitation in speech: defective utterance.—ns. Stamm′erer; Stamm′ering.—adv. Stamm′eringly.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you stammer in your conversation, denotes that worry and illness will threaten your enjoyment. To hear others stammer, foretells that unfriendly persons will delight in annoying you and giving you needless worry.
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Examples
- I stammer, with a bow, 'With you, Miss Larkins. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Of course, I could only stammer out my thanks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My heart was beating so fast, and there was such a singing in my ears, that I could scarcely stammer I had no objection. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I got it out of him,' said Fledgeby, with a stammer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Still, Polly, there is a little flutter, a little tendency to stammer now and then, and even, to lisp as you lisped when you were six years old. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Miss Summerson, stammered Mr. Guppy, I--I--beg your pardon, but in our profession--we--we--find it necessary to be explicit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am very sorry, your Wash-up,' stammered Grummer. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We--we were only cooling ourselves,' stammered Bumble, looking apprehensively about him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- At last I stammered, I think I never met you till that night, some weeks agowhen you were hurt. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Archer stammered, his brain whirling with the shock of the announcement. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I stammered something about the pleasure I felt in seeing her again, and about my having looked forward to it, for a long, long time. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Ay, reverend valorous sir, stammered poor Isaac, and whatsoever ransom a poor man may pay for her deliverance--- Peace! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Who--who--who, he said, stammering with rage, who asked this impudent fanatic into the house? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And Ursula translated, stammering and brief. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I have to beg your ladyship's pardon, Mr. Guppy stammers, very downcast. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Patricia