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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
balbutient, balbuties, bashful, bashfulness, battology, confused, confusion, conscious, coy, coyness, demure, demureness, demurity, dysphemia, embarrassment, expletive, faltering, filling, halting, hesitating, hesitation, inarticulate, macrology, mousiness, mousy, padding, palilalia, pleonasm, redundancy, self-conscious, self-consciousness, shamefaced, shamefacedness, shamefast, shamefastness, shy, shyness, skittish, skittishness, stagefright, stammer, stumbling, stutter, stuttering, tautologism, tautology, timid, timidity, timidness, timorous, timorousness, traulism
Dictionary Results for stammering:
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, a.
   Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. --
   Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, n. (Physiol.)
   A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due
   essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the
   diaphragm, by which expiration is prevented, and hence it may
   be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stammer \Stam"mer\ (st[a^]m"m[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
   Stammered (-m[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Stammering.] [OE.
   stameren, fr. AS. stamur, stamer, stammering; akin to D. &
   LG. stameren to stammer, G. stammeln, OHG. stammal[=o]n,
   stamm[=e]n, Dan. stamme, Sw. stamma, Icel. stama, stamma,
   OHG. & Dan. stam stammering, Icel. stamr, Goth. stamms, and
   to G. stemmen to bear against, stumm dumb, D. stom. Cf.
   Stem to resist, Stumble.]
   To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to
   hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and
   difficulty; to stutter.
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         I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour
         this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out
         of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or
         none at all.                             --Shak.
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