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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024stam•mer /ˈstæmɚ/USA pronunciation v. - to speak with uncontrollable breaks and pauses or repetitions of syllables or sounds: [no object]He stammered and got more nervous when the police asked him what he was doing.[~ (+ out) + object]He stammered (out) some lame excuse about being at the movies.[used with quotations]"I..uh, I..don't remember,'' he stammered.
n. [countable] - a stammering way of speaking.
- a stammered word, phrase, or sentence.
stam•mer•er, n. [countable] stam•mer•ing•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024stam•mer (stam′ər),USA pronunciation v.i. - to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
v.t. - to say with a stammer (often fol. by out).
n. - a stammering mode of utterance.
- a stammered utterance.
- bef. 1000; Middle English stammeren (verb, verbal), Old English stamerian (cognate with German stammern), equivalent. to stam stammering + -erian -er6; akin to Old Norse stamma to stammer, Gothic stams stammering
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged pause, hesitate, falter. Stammer, stutter mean to speak with some form of difficulty. Stammer, the general term, suggests a speech difficulty that results in broken or inarticulate sounds and sometimes in complete stoppage of speech; it may be temporary, caused by sudden excitement, confusion, embarrassment, or other emotion, or it may be so deep-seated as to require special treatment for its correction. Stutter, the parallel term preferred in technical usage, designates a broad range of defects that produce spasmodic interruptions of the speech rhythm, repetitions, or prolongations of sounds or syllables:The child's stutter was no mere stammer of embarrassment.
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