stammer
IPA: stˈæmɝ
noun
- The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.
- A speech defect whereby someone speaks with a stammer
- A surname from German.
verb
- (intransitive) To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
- (transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.
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Examples of "stammer" in Sentences
- The baby begins to stammer.
- Once again, Billy begins to stammer in rage.
- He often stammers even though he is a spokeman.
- He lost his train of thought and began to stammer.
- Because of he stammers, Albert dreaded public speaking.
- We may stammer, or pause, or produce slips of the tongue.
- In the case of John Stammers, the answer is a resounding yes.
- Probably the stammer is the effort of the young ones to sing.
- Richardson received the nickname 'GGGarth' because he stammers.
- Brandon went on to front Spear of Destiny with bassist Stammers.
- It also caused him to stammer, but this tends to diminish as tensions rise.
- 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.