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Definition of Stammer
1. Verb. Speak haltingly. "Sam and Sue stammer"; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"
Generic synonyms: Mouth, Speak, Talk, Utter, Verbalise, Verbalize
Derivative terms: Falter, Stammerer, Stutter, Stutterer
2. Noun. A speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds.
Generic synonyms: Defect Of Speech, Speech Defect, Speech Disorder
Derivative terms: Stutter
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
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, ..."
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