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▪ I. stammering, vbl. n.|ˈstæmərɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of the verb stammer; hesitation and involuntary repetition in speech; also (now dial.) staggering and stumbling in gait. Also fig.
1357Lay Folks Catech. (T.) 541 For idelnesse is enmy to cristen man saule Stepmodir and stameryng agayne gode thewes. c1440Promp. Parv. 472/1 Stamerynge, yn speche. Ibid., Stamerynge, in goyng. 1584Lyly Campaspe Epil. at Blacke Fryers, As Demosthenes with often breathing vp the hill amended his stammering. 1589R. Bruce Serm. Sacr. v. (1843) 148 He forgives thir doutings, he forgives thir stammerings. 1607Markham Caval. iv. (1617) 49 When you have brought him to the perfitnes of his pace, so that he will doe it..without anie stammering or straining of his tramels. 1621― Fowling 270 That then presently he [the dog] doe the same, without any stamering, stay, or amazement. 1790Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 15 There is also a confusion of language which resembles the stammering of one who endeavours to excuse a misdeed which he resolves to commit. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. ii. 53 Cases of stammering, in which..the organ of speech is more or less imperfect.
2. transf. in certain pathological uses.
1855Dunglison Med. Lex., Stammering of the Fingers. 1868Paget in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Oct. 437/1 The stammering with the bladder occurs in just the same conditions as the stammering speech. Ibid. 437/2 The characters of stammering with the organs of deglutition may..be recognised by their likeness to those of urinary stammering.
▪ II. stammering, ppl. a.|ˈstæmərɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That stammers. Often transf. and fig.
stammering micturition: see stammering vbl. n. 2.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxi. (1495) 128 Kyndly stamerynge men stamere for tomoche moisture of the brayne other of the tongue. a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot 212 Parrot is no stameryng stare, that men call a starlyng. 1560Bible (Geneva) Isa. xxviii. 11 A stammering tongue. 1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 74 Lett this stammringe letter suffize for a dutifull sollicitour. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2453/4 He had a Scar in his left Cheek, and stammering Speech. 1704Steele Tender Husb. i. ii, I saw you..prompt a stammering witness in Westminster Hall. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 273 Those maudling, stammering effusions which they call speeches. 1868Paget in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Oct. 437/1 Stammering urinary organs. 1888Chiene in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 191 The condition termed by Sir James Paget stammering micturition. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 419 There may be a sort of stammering articulation for days.
Hence ˈstammeringly adv.; also (rare) ˈstammeringness.
1545Elyot Dict., Titubanter, stameringly. 1637Ld. Wariston Diary (1911) 276 Lord, thou knouest the stammeringnes, or rather the unskraiped overhaistings of my tongue. 1785F. Burney Diary 16 Dec., I stammeringly answered—‘I thought—sir—it would look very well in print!’ 1868Browning Ring & Bk. x. 53 Then one..Spoke as he dared, set stammeringly forth... How nowise lacked there precedent for this. |