单词 | stammerer |
释义 | stammerern.1 a. One who stammers. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > one who speaks inarticulately > one who stammered or stuttered wlaffer1340 buffera1382 droterc1440 stoterc1440 mafflardc1450 rattler1483 stammerera1513 fumbler1519 stutter1530 maffler1552 mantera1585 stutterer1598 hummer1820 α. β. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Stambrer, titubator. Stambrer in readynge, offensator.a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxiiii. f. cv Lodowycus Balbus, whiche is to meane Lewys ye Stamerer. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xxv If it [i.e. stuttering] do come for beynge in the company of a stutter or a stamerer, a man must refrayne the company of a stutter. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxxii. 4. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1097 in Wks. (1640) III Like Children, that imitate the vices of Stammerers so long, till at last they become such. 1738 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 35/1 A Stammerer is generally of a Fiery Temper. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 212 Cardiac defects are frequent in stammerers. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1580 G. Harvey Three Proper Lett. iii. 45 A fewe suche stammerers as haue not the masterie of their owne Tongues. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 150 What mighty lines hath Isaiah?..read, and confesse Demosthenes and Cicero, but Stammerers at Eloquence. 1780 Mirror No. 97 She..is a very stammerer in infidelity. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 128 Poor eager hope is but a stammerer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † stammerern.2 Scottish. Obsolete. plural. Detached pieces of limestone. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > loose stones scree1709 brasha1722 ratchel1747 stammerers1793 slithers1805 shingle1959 1793 D. Ure Hist. Rutherglen 259 Besides the regular strata, a great number of detached pieces, called Stammerers, are, in many places of the parish, found imbedded in clay. 1800 J. Headrick in Commun. Board Agric. II. 256 There are, how~ever, water-worn limestones scattered here and there through land, called stammerers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1a1513n.21793 |
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