Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who stammers or stutters in speaking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who stammers.
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- noun
Agent noun ofstammer ; one who stammers; astutterer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions
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Examples
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Another thing which I always thought peculiar when I was a stammerer was the fact that I had practically no difficulty in talking to animals when I was alone with them.
Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
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The physical condition of the stammerer is the result of many factors.
Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
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BALBUS, literally "stammerer," the name of several Roman families.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Let me tell you, for a stutterer, a stammerer, to be heard is a wonderful thing.
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Since then, he's appeared in myriad period pieces, including as the archbishop in another tale of a stammerer, The King's Speech, a Roman senator in another Oscar winner, Gladiator, and the crimesolving monk in PBS' Mystery! series Cadfael.
Cheers & Jeers: The Borgias' Derek Jacobi: When in Rome... 2011
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In a hotel room a teenage girl, a stammerer who is prone to fits, has unwilling sex with a foul-mouthed (is there any other kind?) reporter.
Men Should Weep; Blasted; When We Are Married Susannah Clapp 2010
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"Sometimes people write about me that I'm a cured stammerer, but that's not the case."
Michael Palin centre offers hope to children who stammer 2011
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Bertie had to have the will to recover, the support of family and friends even of Churchill, a childhood stammerer himself, and an expert to teach him how to function beyond his disability.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: The King's Speech: What The Film Teaches Us About Life With A Disability MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2010
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The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided Jean Valjean to take her with him.
Les Miserables 2008
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Written in 1934 but certainly not dated, Graves captures the backroom intrigues of Imperial Rome as told through the character of Claudius, a seemingly incompetent stammerer forced at knife point to become Emperor.
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