Definition of Stammer

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Stammer

To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.

To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.

Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.

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Stammer Quotations

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.
Bob Newhart

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
W. Somerset Maugham

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Christopher Morley

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
Carly Simon

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
Patrick Campbell

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
Ted Morgan

Stammer Translations

stammer in Dutch is stamelen, hakkelen, stotteren
stammer in German is stammeln, stottern
stammer in Portuguese is gaguejo
stammer in Spanish is balbucear, tartamudear
stammer in Swedish is stamma, stammning

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