What does "stammer" mean?
Stammer: To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.
- 3.Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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