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
Maybe his loyal servants were respecting and honouring him, their late commander in chief, by welcoming a stammerer into their midst, trusting him, treating him with dignity.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2010
One day he heard the great preacher say that the Lord could use even the tongue of the stammerer.
From And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by J. Wilbur Chapman
