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Definition of stammer in English: stammerverb ˈstaməˈstæmər [no object]1Speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words. 结结巴巴地说话，结巴 he turned red and started stammering Example sentencesExamples - We are suddenly, when we stammer and pause, in a position to gauge the difference language makes, the revelation that if we cannot name something there is a real sense in which we do not have it.
- Stuttering (or stammering, as it is often called in Britain) is probably the best known and most researched speech disorder, but perhaps the most difficult to define, to explain, and to treat, especially in adults.
- He stammered, a tomato red blush creeping up his neck.
- The man stammered over his words for a moment before he finally managed to regain the power of speech.
- He stammered, he stuttered, he stopped to look over notes and he forgot what he was saying plenty of times.
- She'll start acting coy, and then suddenly blink, stammer, turn red, and hurry off quickly or, if we're in our room (this semester we have a free period at the same time), she buries her nose in a book.
- It was a known secret that when Helen lied she had a tendency to stammer.
- Frequent headaches may be independent, but because they make you tense, and you have a tendency to stammer, you probably do so during a headache.
- And there I had been, stammering and stuttering until I found my voice, until I finally showed her that I had a little bit of something in me - words that could be angry, something other than timidity or shyness.
- Carl observed that when Preston spoke these words he did not stammer once over the names themselves.
- Da Vinci is almost the only TV program I can think of where people speak as they do in real life: they stammer, trail off, repeat themselves, go on unrelated tangents, and loop back into continuing conversations.
- It took him a while to realize who she was and he immediately obeyed, stammering and stuttering with his words as he complied.
- ‘N-n-n-no problem,’ replied Chastity, stammering at his sudden courage.
- Every thought and lesson flew right out of her head, leaving her stuttering and stammering over things even the younger grades already knew.
- Every time he looked at her, he felt like a small boy, stammering over his words, or saying something absolutely inane.
- The rain turned from warm and pleasurable to cold and assaulting, and my teeth chattered, my words stammered, because of it.
- ‘Good boy,’ he finally grunted when he was sure he could speak without stammering.
- Here I am, a distinguished public speaker, stuttering and stammering, at a complete loss for words.
- Michael O'Shea, who is over the McGuire Programme's Waterford support group, said the programme provided help and support to people with this speech problem by teaching them a technique that enables them to speak without stammering.
- He had a tendency to stammer when he was nervous, which he always seemed to be when he was summoned by Mordred.
Synonyms stutter, speak haltingly, stumble over one's words, hesitate, falter, fumble for words, pause, halt, mumble, splutter - 1.1reporting verb Say something with difficulty, repeating the initial letters of words and with sudden involuntary pauses.
with direct speech ‘I … I can't,’ Isabel stammered with object I stammered out my history 我结结巴巴地讲述了我的过去。 Example sentencesExamples - He stammers excuses, she is in the background yelling and he is calling her names.
- A few of us passed Harold, patted him on the back and stammered ill-fitting words of sympathy.
- When I started stammering something about plans I already had, Claire squashed all my hopes for getting out of it.
- He stammered a few syllables and shifted his feet.
- He clutched my upper sleeve tightly and writhed in his agony for a while before finally stammering a few words.
- Gibil stepped back as he stammered his challenge.
- Yasir was nervous, and started stammering his words.
- ‘Yes we met at the Farquar ball a couple of months before,’ Bertie said shocked that he did not stammer one word in that sentence.
- Rogozhin proposes that they give each other the crosses they wear round their necks, and stammers a renunciation of Nastasia.
- Crisp rose awkwardly, stammering a greeting and almost chewed off his tongue before falling silent and blushing, his pale features flushed, marred only by the slight bruising from where he had been struck by the man in the city.
- No strings, they'd assured me as I stammered my thanks.
- I stopped him before he got into a bus, stammered some words of praise for his honesty, and wished him well for the elections.
- She and I couldn't help stammering our gratitude to Jeffrey.
- Suddenly sorry for lashing out, she stammered an apology.
- Roxanne accepted the gifts, stammering her thanks.
- Both of us blushed deep colors and stammered apologies.
- Fearful, perplexed, he stammers incomprehensible excuses under the suspicious stare of the policeman, who does not believe that someone would refuse to accept that kind of change.
- I flashed my badge at him and he stammered an apology, saying he would take me as far as the edge of the town I needed to get to.
- Mike hadn't said a word as he stammered a list of worries, concerns and fears - but he had listened.
- Brae followed cautiously, and Chase stood behind him stammering his misgivings.
noun ˈstaməˈstæmər A tendency to stammer. 口吃，结巴 as a young man, he had a dreadful stammer 他年轻时口吃得厉害。 Example sentencesExamples - My stammer would make me completely unable to say a sentence properly, but I didn't want this ever to get in the way of what I wanted to do.
- ‘H-hello,’ she stammered, slipping back briefly into a childhood stammer.
- We, a young couple, novices in bringing up children, had gifted a stammer to our eldest-born.
- John's constant unsuccessful attempts to gain his father's attention and approval, coupled with being forced to write with his right hand, are the reasons he gives for his developing a stammer and his subsequent lack of self-esteem.
- They highlighted the fact that many famous people with a stammer, including Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe, managed to overcome their speech defect.
- Jas Duke was the artist who turned the infliction of a stammer into some of the greatest performance poetry ever.
- She sensed the stammer in my voice and hugged me tightly.
- The young schoolgirl with the stammer in Switzerland has become a very poised public speaker in Pattaya.
- He would often practise his speeches for many hours and had a slight stammer and lisp.
- Birkin, a Londoner who has survived the Great War but is left with a stammer, a nervous twitch, and vivid nightmares, is given the summer job of uncovering a mediaeval wall-painting in the church of a small Yorkshire village.
- Carter first learned to trade with his fists when he was a 10-year-old who suffered from a severe stammer and refused to be ridiculed.
- There might be a slight stammer but otherwise the speech will seem normal.
- Hard to believe, but the effort in Bird's voice stems from a childhood stammer.
- ‘I didn't think there was much good fiction that takes you inside what it's like to have a stammer,’ he says.
- It could be construed as a brave choice because - though you'd never know it from watching him in character - Dimsdale has a noticeable stammer, something that could be seen as a big drawback in a profession where the voice is paramount.
- By the way - who, today, would hire a lecturer with a stammer?
- Sitting towards the back of the hall was an inconspicuous, balding, bespectacled man with a slight stammer.
- ‘When I was in my teens, I had a terrible stammer,’ he says.
- The courses were held in the town for four days, and Gareth, pictured right, who conquered a severe stammer and recently became a speech therapist, gave his first lessons teaching some of the 100 students who attended the course.
- Karim, whose excellent English labours under a debilitating stammer, says: ‘My neighbours are very good people.’
Synonyms stutter, speech impediment, speech defect
Derivativesnoun ˈstamərəˈstæm(ə)rər A self-help group for stammerers was today being launched in York and Scarborough to coincide with International Stammering Awareness Day. Example sentencesExamples - Like many stammerers, Anthony would walk up to the bar and ask for a drink he didn't want, just because the name tripped off his tongue slightly more easily than that of his choice.
- Music was a vital escape route for Stephen, but recently, a new ground-breaking programme has been helping stammerers like Stephen worldwide.
- Stammering is predominantly a ‘male’ condition (80% of all stammerers are male) and it usually affects the first-born male child.
- At an open day promoting the McGuire Programme, which helps stammerers fight the speech condition, the former Bradford Cathedral chorister from East Bowling revealed he now delighted in giving media interviews and loved speaking.
adjective ˈstamərɪŋˈstæm(ə)rɪŋ Uttered with a stammer. a stammering confession of guilt
adverbˈstam(ə)rɪŋliˈstæm(ə)rɪŋli After much persuasion he consented to get up; and though he spoke stammeringly, and though the audience was made up of men who favoured slavery as well as of those who opposed it, his success was great. Example sentencesExamples - Taken aback, she stammeringly asked them, ‘Are you sure your commanding officer sent you to the right address?’
- And it's almost always the brand-new people who will look at me after a session with that blown-away expression on their face and say, stammeringly, ‘That was great.’
OriginLate Old English stamerian, of West Germanic origin; related to stumble. The noun dates from the late 18th century. RhymesAlabama, clamour (US clamor), crammer, gamma, glamour (US glamor), gnamma, grammar, hammer, jammer, lamber, mamma, rammer, shammer, slammer, yammer Definition of stammer in US English: stammerverbˈstæmərˈstamər [no object]1Speak with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeat the initial letters of words. 结结巴巴地说话，结巴 Example sentencesExamples - Michael O'Shea, who is over the McGuire Programme's Waterford support group, said the programme provided help and support to people with this speech problem by teaching them a technique that enables them to speak without stammering.
- Here I am, a distinguished public speaker, stuttering and stammering, at a complete loss for words.
- He stammered, a tomato red blush creeping up his neck.
- The man stammered over his words for a moment before he finally managed to regain the power of speech.
- It was a known secret that when Helen lied she had a tendency to stammer.
- He stammered, he stuttered, he stopped to look over notes and he forgot what he was saying plenty of times.
- Stuttering (or stammering, as it is often called in Britain) is probably the best known and most researched speech disorder, but perhaps the most difficult to define, to explain, and to treat, especially in adults.
- ‘N-n-n-no problem,’ replied Chastity, stammering at his sudden courage.
- It took him a while to realize who she was and he immediately obeyed, stammering and stuttering with his words as he complied.
- ‘Good boy,’ he finally grunted when he was sure he could speak without stammering.
- We are suddenly, when we stammer and pause, in a position to gauge the difference language makes, the revelation that if we cannot name something there is a real sense in which we do not have it.
- Carl observed that when Preston spoke these words he did not stammer once over the names themselves.
- Every thought and lesson flew right out of her head, leaving her stuttering and stammering over things even the younger grades already knew.
- She'll start acting coy, and then suddenly blink, stammer, turn red, and hurry off quickly or, if we're in our room (this semester we have a free period at the same time), she buries her nose in a book.
- Da Vinci is almost the only TV program I can think of where people speak as they do in real life: they stammer, trail off, repeat themselves, go on unrelated tangents, and loop back into continuing conversations.
- And there I had been, stammering and stuttering until I found my voice, until I finally showed her that I had a little bit of something in me - words that could be angry, something other than timidity or shyness.
- The rain turned from warm and pleasurable to cold and assaulting, and my teeth chattered, my words stammered, because of it.
- Every time he looked at her, he felt like a small boy, stammering over his words, or saying something absolutely inane.
- Frequent headaches may be independent, but because they make you tense, and you have a tendency to stammer, you probably do so during a headache.
- He had a tendency to stammer when he was nervous, which he always seemed to be when he was summoned by Mordred.
Synonyms stutter, speak haltingly, stumble over one's words, hesitate, falter, fumble for words, pause, halt, mumble, splutter - 1.1reporting verb Utter (words) with a stammer.
结结巴巴地说，口吃着说 with direct speech “I … I can't,” Isabel stammered I stammered out my history 我结结巴巴地讲述了我的过去。 Example sentencesExamples - A few of us passed Harold, patted him on the back and stammered ill-fitting words of sympathy.
- Suddenly sorry for lashing out, she stammered an apology.
- Fearful, perplexed, he stammers incomprehensible excuses under the suspicious stare of the policeman, who does not believe that someone would refuse to accept that kind of change.
- Gibil stepped back as he stammered his challenge.
- Rogozhin proposes that they give each other the crosses they wear round their necks, and stammers a renunciation of Nastasia.
- No strings, they'd assured me as I stammered my thanks.
- ‘Yes we met at the Farquar ball a couple of months before,’ Bertie said shocked that he did not stammer one word in that sentence.
- Both of us blushed deep colors and stammered apologies.
- He stammers excuses, she is in the background yelling and he is calling her names.
- I stopped him before he got into a bus, stammered some words of praise for his honesty, and wished him well for the elections.
- Mike hadn't said a word as he stammered a list of worries, concerns and fears - but he had listened.
- When I started stammering something about plans I already had, Claire squashed all my hopes for getting out of it.
- Crisp rose awkwardly, stammering a greeting and almost chewed off his tongue before falling silent and blushing, his pale features flushed, marred only by the slight bruising from where he had been struck by the man in the city.
- Roxanne accepted the gifts, stammering her thanks.
- Brae followed cautiously, and Chase stood behind him stammering his misgivings.
- He clutched my upper sleeve tightly and writhed in his agony for a while before finally stammering a few words.
- She and I couldn't help stammering our gratitude to Jeffrey.
- He stammered a few syllables and shifted his feet.
- I flashed my badge at him and he stammered an apology, saying he would take me as far as the edge of the town I needed to get to.
- Yasir was nervous, and started stammering his words.
nounˈstæmərˈstamər A tendency to stammer. 口吃，结巴 as a young man, he had a dreadful stammer 他年轻时口吃得厉害。 Example sentencesExamples - By the way - who, today, would hire a lecturer with a stammer?
- The young schoolgirl with the stammer in Switzerland has become a very poised public speaker in Pattaya.
- ‘When I was in my teens, I had a terrible stammer,’ he says.
- John's constant unsuccessful attempts to gain his father's attention and approval, coupled with being forced to write with his right hand, are the reasons he gives for his developing a stammer and his subsequent lack of self-esteem.
- My stammer would make me completely unable to say a sentence properly, but I didn't want this ever to get in the way of what I wanted to do.
- He would often practise his speeches for many hours and had a slight stammer and lisp.
- Carter first learned to trade with his fists when he was a 10-year-old who suffered from a severe stammer and refused to be ridiculed.
- ‘I didn't think there was much good fiction that takes you inside what it's like to have a stammer,’ he says.
- They highlighted the fact that many famous people with a stammer, including Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe, managed to overcome their speech defect.
- There might be a slight stammer but otherwise the speech will seem normal.
- We, a young couple, novices in bringing up children, had gifted a stammer to our eldest-born.
- Birkin, a Londoner who has survived the Great War but is left with a stammer, a nervous twitch, and vivid nightmares, is given the summer job of uncovering a mediaeval wall-painting in the church of a small Yorkshire village.
- Sitting towards the back of the hall was an inconspicuous, balding, bespectacled man with a slight stammer.
- ‘H-hello,’ she stammered, slipping back briefly into a childhood stammer.
- She sensed the stammer in my voice and hugged me tightly.
- Jas Duke was the artist who turned the infliction of a stammer into some of the greatest performance poetry ever.
- It could be construed as a brave choice because - though you'd never know it from watching him in character - Dimsdale has a noticeable stammer, something that could be seen as a big drawback in a profession where the voice is paramount.
- The courses were held in the town for four days, and Gareth, pictured right, who conquered a severe stammer and recently became a speech therapist, gave his first lessons teaching some of the 100 students who attended the course.
- Hard to believe, but the effort in Bird's voice stems from a childhood stammer.
- Karim, whose excellent English labours under a debilitating stammer, says: ‘My neighbours are very good people.’
Synonyms stutter, speech impediment, speech defect
OriginLate Old English stamerian, of West Germanic origin; related to stumble. The noun dates from the late 18th century. |