stammer

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1. stammer - Noun

2. stammer - Verb

3. Stammer - Proper noun

Meaning

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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If we discovered that we had only 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

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

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

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

To understand a stammerer, you ought to stammer yourself. Latin Proverb

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