'Stammering' definitions:
Definition of 'Stammering'
From: GCIDE
- Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, a. Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- {Stam"mer*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stammering'
From: GCIDE
- Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, n. (Physiol.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is prevented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stammering'
From: GCIDE
- Stammer \Stam"mer\ (st[a^]m"m[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stammered (-m[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Stammering.] [OE. stameren, fr. AS. stamur, stamer, stammering; akin to D. & LG. stameren to stammer, G. stammeln, OHG. stammal[=o]n, stamm[=e]n, Dan. stamme, Sw. stamma, Icel. stama, stamma, OHG. & Dan. stam stammering, Icel. stamr, Goth. stamms, and to G. stemmen to bear against, stumm dumb, D. stom. Cf. Stem to resist, Stumble.] To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and difficulty; to stutter. [1913 Webster]
- I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stammering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- balbutient,
- balbuties,
- bashful,
- bashfulness,
- battology,
- confused,
- confusion,
- conscious,
- coy,
- coyness,
- demure,
- demureness,
- demurity,
- dysphemia,
- embarrassment,
- expletive,
- faltering,
- filling,
- halting,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- inarticulate,
- macrology,
- mousiness,
- mousy,
- padding,
- palilalia,
- pleonasm,
- redundancy,
- self-conscious,
- self-consciousness,
- shamefaced,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefast,
- shamefastness,
- shy,
- shyness,
- skittish,
- skittishness,
- stagefright,
- stammer,
- stumbling,
- stutter,
- stuttering,
- tautologism,
- tautology,
- timid,
- timidity,
- timidness,
- timorous,
- timorousness,
- traulism