stammer
sta mer
- n a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds
- v speak haltingly
- And when he tries to explain himself, he is seized with a stammer which still further alarms the lady.
- Asked what in the world his boss could be referring to, Zhirinovsky's top deputy back in Moscow could only stammer: "Elipton .
- The Marquess of Salisbury, 78, the Tory blueblood whose high-pitched stammer echoed through British Parliament for more than four decades; of fibrosis of the lung; in .