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单词 stammer
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stammern.

Brit. /ˈstamə/, U.S. /ˈstæmər/
Etymology: < stammer v.
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’.
in extended use.1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being iv. 45 The little demon [a Maxim gun] set up the ‘irritating stammer’ that the nine point two gun found so objectionable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

stammerv.

Brit. /ˈstamə/, U.S. /ˈstæmər/
Forms: α. Old English stamerian, stomrian, Middle English stamerie, Middle English stamere, Middle English stammery, Scottish stemer, stummer, Middle English–1600s stamer, Middle English– stammer. β. 1500s stamb(b)re, stambur, 1500s–1600s stamber.
Etymology: Old English stamerian , stǫmrian = West Frisian stammerje , North Frisian stamere , (Miiddle) Low German, (Middle) Dutch stameren < West Germanic *stamrōjan , < *stamro- (Old English stamor adjective, North Frisian stamer stammering) < *stam- (see stem v.2). A parallel formation with suffix l instead of r is found in (Middle) Low German, (Middle) Dutch stamelen, Old High German stamalôn (modern German stammeln) to stammer, < West Germanic *stamlo- adjective (Old High German stamal), stammering. Other synonymous verbs from the same root are Old High German stam(m)ên, Old Norse stama, Old English stǫmmettan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
β. 1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. D2 Playes on thoughts as girls with beads: When their masse they stamber.
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.
in extended use.1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 69 I stammered out a bow, and..went home.
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.
4. transitive. To nonplus; = stagger v. 7. Obsolete.
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).
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