stammer
verb (used without object)
to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
stammerer
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a word derived from
stammer.
Example Sentences
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He was a lifelong stammerer, and this challenge led him to leave Cambridge, where he had taught in the late 1940s and early ’50s, to work in London as a librarian and an editor.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
Probably the most useful person was the writer, David Seidler, a childhood stammerer.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 20, 2011
The thing is," laughs Lieckfeldt, himself a stammerer, "we are quiet, we're not very good at talking about it because, well, we have difficulties talking about it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2011
At the Observer, I found myself standing in for my idol, the greatest critic of postwar Britain and unabashed stammerer, Ken Tynan.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2010
The stammerer should seek to discover the cause of his difficulty, and to overcome it by vocal and respiratory exercise, especially by speaking only after a full inspiration, and during a long, slow expiration.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
