单词 | stammering |
释义 | stammeringn. 1. The action of stammer v.; hesitation and involuntary repetition in speech; also (now dialect) staggering and stumbling in gait. Also figurative. 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 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > unsteady staggering1530 (to have) the staggers1599 stammering1607 lurch1819 lurching1852 dottiness1875 1357 Lay Folks Catech. (T.) 541 For idelnesse is enmy to cristen man saule Stepmodir and stameryng agayne gode thewes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 472/1 Stamerynge, yn speche. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 472/1 Stamerynge, in goyng. 1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes Epil. sig. F4 As Demosthenes with often breathing vp the hill amended his stammering. ?1591 R. Bruce Serm. Sacrament v. sig. T3 He forgiues thir doutings, he forgiues thir stamrings. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. 47 When you haue brought him to the perfitnes of his pace, so that he will doe it..without any stammering or strayning of his tramels. 1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention 270 That then presently he [the dog] doe the same, without any stamering, stay, or amazement. 1790 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (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. 1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. ii. 53 Cases of stammering, in which..the organ of speech is more or less imperfect. 2. transferred in certain pathological uses. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > disordered functioning ataxy1670 overaction1741 excitement1788 perversion1834 stammering1844 incompetency1865 incompetence1876 hypermotility1894 hypomotility1900 hypofunction1905 hyperfunction1909 hypoactivity1910 hyperfunctioning1918 hypofunctioning1926 1844 R. Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 4) Cramp, Writers', Stammering of the Fingers, a condition of the fingers, in which they are unable to hold the pen. 1868 Paget in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Oct. 437/1 The stammering with the bladder occurs in just the same conditions as the stammering speech. 1868 Paget in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Oct. 437/2 The characters of stammering with the organs of deglutition may..be recognised by their likeness to those of urinary stammering. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2020). stammeringadj. That stammers. Often transferred and figurative. stammering micturition: see stammering n. 2. 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 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [adjective] > disordered functioning ataxic1853 incompetent1863 stammering1868 atactic1880 hyperfunctioning1918 hypofunctional1933 hyperfunctional1934 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxi. 128 Kyndly stamerynge men stamere for tomoche moisture of the brayne other of the tongue. a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.vv Parrot is no stameryng stare, y[at] men call a starlyng. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. xxviii. 11 A stammering tongue. 1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 74 Lett this stammringe letter suffize for a dutifull sollicitour. 1689 London Gaz. No. 2453/4 He had a Scar in his left Cheek, and stammering Speech. 1704 R. Steele Tender Husband i. ii I saw you..prompt a stammering witness in Westminster Hall. 1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 273 Those maudling, stammering effusions which they call speeches. 1868 Paget in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Oct. 437/1 Stammering urinary organs. 1888 Chiene in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 191 The condition termed by Sir James Paget stammering micturition. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 419 There may be a sort of stammering articulation for days. Derivatives ˈstammeringly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [adverb] > with a stammer drotinglyc1440 stammeringly1545 stuttingly1548 stutteringly1563 falteringa1741 hesitatingly1800 hesitatively1881 1545 T. Elyot Bibliotheca (new ed.) Titubanter, stameringly. 1785 F. Burney Diary 16 Dec. (1842) II. 375 I stammeringly answered—‘I thought—sir—it would look very well in print!’ 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 3 Then one..Spoke as he dared, set stammeringly forth..How nowise lacked there precedent for this. ˈstammeringness n. rare. 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 1637 A. Johnston Diary (1911) I. 276 Lord, thou knouest the stammeringnes, or rather the unskraiped overhaistings of my tongue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1357adj.1398 |
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