About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- stammer
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

stammer

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle)
 : 
stam=mer

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stammer has 1 sense

Verb stammer has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

stammerv. i. [OE. stameren, fr. AS. stamur, stamer, stammering; akin to D. & LG. stameren to stammer, G. stammeln, OHG. stammal, stamm, 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."  [1913 Webster]
stammerv. t. 
     To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.  [1913 Webster]
stammern. 
     Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stammer, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. speak (habitually, or on occasion from embarrassment etc.) with halting articulation, esp. with pauses or rapid repetitions of the same syllable.
2 tr. (often foll. by out) utter (words) in this way (stammered out an excuse).
--n.
1 a tendency to stammer.
2 an instance of stammering.

Derivative
stammerer n. stammeringly adv.
Etymology
OE stamerian f. WG

THESAURUS

stammer

balbuties, be guilty, blush, change color, color, color up, crimson, dysphemia, falter, faltering, flush, gibber, halt, hammer, haw, hem, hem and haw, hesitate, hesitation, hum, hum and haw, jabber, look guilty, lurch, mammer, mantle, palilalia, pause, redden, splutter, sputter, squirm with self-consciousness, stagger, stammering, stumble, stutter, stuttering, topple, totter, traulism, turn red, wobble

ROGET THESAURUS

stammer

Stammering

VB stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer, balbutiate, balbucinate, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together, mumble, mutter, maud, mauder, whisper, mince, lisp, jabber, gibber, sputter, splutter, muffle, mump, drawl, mouth, croak, speak thick, speak through the nose, snuffle, clip one's words, murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, mispronounce, missay.

See related words and definitions of word "stammer" in Indonesian
copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion