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- Dictionarystammer/ˈstamə/
verb
- 1. speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words: "he turned red and started stammering"
noun
- 1. a tendency to stammer: "as a young man, he had a dreadful stammer"
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the act of saying something with unusual paused or repeated sounds because of fear or nervousness: Although he said he felt calm, there was a slight stammer in his voice. She was a gangly girl of 15, all stammers and blushes. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
The meaning of STAMMER is to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter. How to use stammer in a sentence.
Stammer, the general term, suggests a speech disfluency that results in broken or inarticulate sounds and sometimes in complete stoppage of speech; it may be temporary, caused by sudden excitement, confusion, embarrassment, or other emotion, or it may be persistent and require speech therapy for its correction.
the act of saying something with unusual paused or repeated sounds because of fear or nervousness: Although he said he felt calm, there was a slight stammer in his voice. She was a gangly girl of 15, all stammers and blushes. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
verb. /ˈstæmə (r)/ /ˈstæmər/ [intransitive, transitive] Verb Forms. to speak with difficulty, repeating sounds or words and often stopping, before saying things correctly synonym stutter. Many children stammer but grow out of it. + speech ‘W-w-what?’ he stammered.
stammer, the general term, suggests a speech difficulty that results in broken or inarticulate sounds and sometimes in complete stoppage of speech; it may be temporary, caused by sudden excitement, confusion, embarrassment, or other emotion, or it may be so deep-seated as to require special treatment for its correction.
vb. (Medicine) to speak or say (something) in a hesitant way, esp as a result of a speech disorder or through fear, stress, etc. n. (Pathology) a speech disorder characterized by involuntary repetitions and hesitations. [Old English stamerian; related to Old Saxon stamarōn, Old High German stamm] ˈstammerer n. ˈstammering n, adj. ˈstammeringly adv.
stammer definition: to pause a lot and repeat sounds because of a speech problem or because you are nervous: . Learn more.
1. If you stammer, you speak with difficulty, hesitating and repeating words or sounds. [...] 2. Someone who has a stammer tends to stammer when they speak. [...] More. Pronunciations of 'stammer' American English: stæmər British English: stæməʳ. More. Conjugations of 'stammer' present simple: I stammer, you stammer [...]
Stammering (or stuttering) has a couple of related meanings. A stammer is a serious problem for some people who have great difficulty speaking. They have trouble getting the words out, and their language does not flow.
