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.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stammer is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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