stammer

Meanings

Verb

• To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
• To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

Noun

• The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.
• A speech defect whereby someone speaks with a stammer

Related

Similar words

• stutter

Origin

• From Middle English stameren, from Old English stamerian, from Proto-West Germanic *stamrōn, from Proto-Germanic *stamrōną. Compare German stammeln, Dutch stameren, Old Norse stammr. stumble.