Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hesitating speech; imperfect articulation; stuttering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering.
- noun (Physiol.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is prevented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of stammering
- verb Present participle of
stammer .
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Examples
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January 30th, 2010 at 10: 46 am livelongandprosper says: pezmiztix says: not sure what all the stammering is about in here. foreign campaign contributions certainly drove obama to victory last year.
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Intrepid says: pezmiztix says: not sure what all the stammering is about in here. foreign campaign contributions certainly drove obama to victory last year.
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– pezmiztix – “not sure what all the stammering is about in here. foreign campaign contributions certainly drove obama to victory last year.”
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What used to be known academically as dysphemia is called stammering in Great Britain and stuttering in the United States.
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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What used to be known academically as dysphemia is called stammering in Great Britain and stuttering in the United States.
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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Or, rather, those drunken scorners who in stammering style imitated Isaiah's warnings to mock them [Maurer] (Isa 28: 7-11, 13, 14, 22; 29: 20); in this view, translate, "speak uprightly" (agreeably to the divine law); not as English Version, referring to the distinctness of articulation, "plainly."
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Anyways-what is going on is that he is remembering the cliche-but getting it backwards-go google the cliche-Obama inverts the delivery-the stammering is a stall for recall.
And the McCain campaign is not giving Obama a pass on the Lipsticked Pig remark. Ann Althouse 2008
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Nothing is quite so disconcerting as the idea of stammering or stopping short.
Poise: How to Attain It D. Starke
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Even that mere hesitation in speech, known as stammering, he deems a misfortune.
This Simian World Clarence Day 1904
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Even that mere hesitation in speech, know as stammering, he deems
This Simian World Clarence Day 1904
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