Word Meanings - STAMMERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.

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• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• STAMMER
  To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine comes
• STUTTERING
  The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• HESITATE
  haerere to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast. Cf. Aghast, 1. To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate
• HESITATORY
  Hesitating. R. North.
• STAMMERER
  One who stammers.
• SPEECHMAKER
  One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
• STUTTER
  To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer. Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor. Macaulay. (more info) Low German origin; cf. D. & LG. stotteren, G. stottern, D. stooten to push,
• SPEECH
  speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the
• HESITATIVE
  Showing, or characterized by, hesitation. in his mild, hesitative way. R. D. Blackmore.
• STUTTERER
  One who stutters; a stammerer.
• SPEECHIFIER
  One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. G. Eliot.
• STAMMERING
  Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
• SPEECHING
  The act of making a speech.
• VISIBLE SPEECH
  A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
• INTERSPEECH
  A speech interposed between others. Blount.
• FORESPEECH
  A preface. Sherwood.
• BY-SPEECH
  An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.