stammer

Universal Words verb, noun verb to speak with difficulty, repeating sounds or words and often stopping, before saying things correctly SYNSTUTTER: [V] Many children stammer but grow out of it. * [Vspeech] 'W-w-what?' he stammered. * [VN] She was barely able to stammer out a description of her attacker. stammerer noun noun [sing.] a problem that sb has in speaking in which they repeat sounds or words or often pause before saying things correctly: She spoke with a stammer. * As a child, he had a dreadful stammer.