stammer

IPA: stˈæmɝ

(intransitive) To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
(transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

Examples of "stammer" in Sentences

Probably the stammer is the effort of the young ones to sing.
To say that a stammer is the cause of literary greatness would be a stretch.
"The most enduring metaphor for me is that my stammer is a person," he said in an interview last year.
Tom Hooper's account of George VI's struggle to beat his stammer was a hit with cinemagoers and critics - only academics pooh-poohed its historical accuracy.
Without even the pretext of a synoptic bridge, he concludes: The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
The stammer was a surprise, and the sudden nervous flickering of long brown lashes that briefly veiled the lively eyes was the first sign of unease Cadfael had detected in him.
Once, he believed that his stammer was a reaction to the furious fluency of his father, whose politics he abhorred, but now he tends to think it was a way of protecting himself against his own feelings of aggression.