Stammer

stammer

1. To hesitate in speech, halt, repeat, and mispronounce, by reason of embarrassment, agitation, unfamiliarity with the subject, or as yet unidentified physiologic causes.

Compare: stutter.

2. To mispronounce or transpose certain consonants in speech.

Origin: A.S. Stamur

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