单词 | stammer |
释义 | stammern. A stammering mode of utterance. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > stammer or stammering stammering1357 wlafferinga1387 mammeringa1425 stuttingc1430 stackeringc1440 stotingc1440 tattling1481 staggering1565 manting1568 maffling1577 stuttering1595 buffing1600 stammeringness1637 titubation1641 balbuties1655 traulism1678 hesitation1709 hammering1731 hobbling1753 stammer1773 mant1801 stutter1843 Hottentotism1871 hesitatingness1890 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 22 This stammer in my address,..can never permit me to soar above the reach of a milliner's 'prentice. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 4 The beadle..states the case without a single stammer. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 429/1 Stammer with this spasm distorts the utterance by an involuntary extension of some part of the syllable. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 429/1 In the looseness of language..all kinds of difficult and defective utterance are misnamed stammer. 1895 R. H. Shepherd in Notes & Queries 8th Ser. VII. 503 Lamb..made the..witty retort, conveyed in his usual roll of stammers: ‘I n-nev-never-h-heard-you-d-do-anything else’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). stammerv. 1. a. intransitive. To falter or stumble in one's speech; esp. to make one or more involuntary repetitions of a consonant or vowel before being able to pass from it to the following sound. Cf. stutter v.Stammering may be the result of indecision, or of sudden emotion (as fear, anger, delight, or grief), or may proceed from pathological conditions of the organs of speech or of the nervous system. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > speak inarticulately or with a defect [verb (intransitive)] > stammer or speak hesitantly stammerc1000 wlaffe1025 stotec1325 humc1374 mafflea1387 stut1388 rattlea1398 famble14.. mammera1425 drotec1440 falterc1440 stackerc1440 hem1470 wallowa1475 tattle1481 mant1506 happer1519 trip1526 hobblea1529 hack1553 stagger1565 faffle1570 stutter1570 hem and hawk1588 ha1604 hammer1619 titubate1623 haw1632 fork1652 hacker1652 lispc1680 hesitate1706 balbutiate1731 haffle1790 hotter1828 stutter1831 ah1853 catch1889 α. β. c1500 Blowbols Test. 33 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 106 Beer..Whiche makyth oft tymes men to stambur.1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark vii. f. liiijv They brought vnto him won that was deffe, and stambred [1557, Geneva, stambbred] in hys speche.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Giv/1 To Stamber, titubare.c1000 Prudentius Glosses in Germania N.S. XI. 392/2 Balbutit, stamaraþ. a1200 Sidonius Glosses in Anecdota Oxoniensia I. v. 43/15 Balbutire .i. stamerie. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 2854 Ac he stamered a litel wiȝt. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxi. 128 Dronken men stamere whan they ben tomoche in moysture in the brayne. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 567/19 Balbutio, to stamery. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 4648 Neptolonius..in speche stamered whan he spak. 1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. A.v I shall myghtly make hym to stamer & stowpe. a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 339 Her felow did stammer and stut. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 732/1 It is a worlde to here hym stammer whan he is angryd. 1574 A. L. tr. Calvin Foure Serm. Song Ezechias ii. D iiij When he stammereth so in himself that he cannot draw foorth one only woord. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 315 They..going about to tell a tale doe nothing but stutte and stammer. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 1 His vocall impediment..was..to wise men an index of his wisdome:..since there was never, or very rarely, known a fool that stammered. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 244. ⁋2 A Man that stammers, if he has Understanding, is to be attended with Patience. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I clxiii. 84 He stood in act to speak, or rather stammer. 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1897) 311 He stammered, stopped, and sat down. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xli. 410 Stammering and blushing, Mr. Toots affects amazement. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xviii. 305 The eloquent tongue forgot its office. Cicero stammered, blundered, and sat down. b. figurative. Also †to stammer it out. ΚΠ 1616 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdoms World (new ed.) 61 Neither doth he [sc. the Grand Seignor] stammer in his comparison of twenty Bashawes within his conquests [i.e. does not hesitate to assert each of them to be greater than our king]. 1653 Ld. Vaux tr. A. Godeau Life St. Paul 351 Although in his rapture he had seen the most profound mysteries of God, yet he accommodated himself to the weakness of his disciples, and stammered it out with them. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 9 That I may dare, in wayfaring, To stammer where old Chaucer used to sing. 1822 Ld. Byron Vision of Judgm. lvii The grammar Of the last phrase, which makes the stanza stammer. 1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 16 Long he must stammer in his speech; often forego the living for the dead. c. said of the tongue. ΚΠ c1050 Malchus in Assmann Ags. Hom. xviii. 380 Me þinceð, þæt me sio tunge stomrige. 14.. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 253 & his Tonge shal stameren oþer famelen. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer viii. 2545 The tongue, that stammers now, shall then speak plain. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud vi. ix, in Maud & Other Poems 29 The new strong wine of love, That made my tongue so stammer and trip. Categories » d. Pathology. (See stammering n. 2.) 2. a. transitive. To utter or say with a stammer. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > utter inarticulately [verb (transitive)] > utter hesitantly or stammer hem1553 mant1568 stammer1587 to hack out1602 stammer1608 fribblea1627 lisp1627 stutter1655 hesitate1734 to falter forth or out1762 hobble1813 falter1851 α. β. 1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. D2 Playes on thoughts as girls with beads: When their masse they stamber.1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 110 Childhood's babbling trill Of curses stammered slow. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 83 He stammered a few words which were as unintelligible as unmeaning, and resumed his chair. 1897 M. Pemberton Queen of Jesters iii. 118 The bailiff stammered an answer. b. with quoted words or clause as object. ΚΠ 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 56 I stammer'd that I knew him. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 169 [It] Abash'd Lavaine..But left him leave to stammer, ‘is it indeed?’ 1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ For White Rose Arno (U.K. ed.) 12 ‘Why—no,’ stammered the young man. ‘I—that is, sir——’. c. with forth, out. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > utter inarticulately [verb (transitive)] > utter hesitantly or stammer hem1553 mant1568 stammer1587 to hack out1602 stammer1608 fribblea1627 lisp1627 stutter1655 hesitate1734 to falter forth or out1762 hobble1813 falter1851 1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Pinnar ii If hee vnstatelike stammer out the same, With staylesse staggering footed verse, by ame. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. viii. i. 151 Cecilia..stammered out ‘No, no,——.’ 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 17 The judges..had roared down the arguments feebly stammered forth by the prisoners. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time viii. 68 I was about to stammer out an excuse. 1902 V. Jacob Sheep-stealers x ‘I was—I mean—I have been trying to get introduced to you for ever so long,’ he stammered out at last. 3. intransitive. To stagger in walking; said especially of horses. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily wiggle?c1225 walter1399 falterc1400 stammerc1400 dotterc1475 stavera1500 stumblea1500 reel1529 scamblec1571 halper1596 totter1602 folder1607 wamble1611 to make a Virginia fence1671 wandle1686 fribble1709 rock1718 stoit1719 stoiter1724 swagger1724 doddle1761 stotter1781 toit1786 doiter1793 stot1801 dodder1819 twaddle1823 teeter1844 shoggle1884 welter1884 warple1887 whemmel1895 c1400 Anturs Arth. 109 Hit stemered, hit stonayde, hit stode as a stone. c1440 [implied in: Promptorium Parvulorum 472/1 Stamerynge, in goyng. (at stammering n. 1)]. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bvv Thair stedis stakkerit in ye stour and stude stummerand. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. 26 Giue him a good chock in the mouth that you may make him stammer, and shuffle his legges confusedly together. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 380 My Legs naturally stammer. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 121 But gin a birkie's owr weel sair'd [i.e. served (with drink)] It gars him aften stammer To pleys that bring him to the guard. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Stammer, to stagger. 1831 R. Blakey Ess. Good & Evil 62 The shot plied like hailstones round the old veteran... But he had the good fortune to escape unhurt, and when he was stammering back the Russians gave him three cheers. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)] gloppena1250 abavea1400 ferlya1400 forferlya1400 supprisec1405 stonish1488 surprend1549 stagger1556 thunderbolta1586 admire1598 startle1598 thunderstrike1613 siderate1623 dumbfound1653 surprise1655 stammer1656 strange1657 astartlea1680 dumbfounder1710 knock1715 to take aback1751 flabbergast1773 to take back1796 stagnate1829 to put aback1833 to make (a person) sit up1878 to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1884 transmogrify1887 rock1947 to flip out1964 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 233 If they should take away his life, that were indeed a sure course: but Nicodemus had stammered them all..when he told them that they could not do it by law. Derivatives ˈstammered adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [adjective] > stammering or stammered wlaffinga1300 stammering1398 stuttinga1425 drotingc1440 stoting1567 maffling1577 hacking1583 stuttering1590 hackeda1603 doubling1605 hesitating1622 balbutient1642 hesitant1647 hesitatorya1734 hesitative1795 stammereda1858 stuttery1937 a1858 Bryant Burial of Love vi We shall..miss..The patter of his little feet, Sweet frowns and stammer'd phrases sweet. 1913 A. Quiller-Couch Hetty Wesley (new ed.) iii. iii. 297 He would rise from the table on some stammered excuse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1773v.c1000 |
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