stammering

CIDE DICTIONARY

stammering, a. 

 Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering.  [1913 Webster]

stammering, n. 

 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.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

stammering

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

ROGET THESAURUS

stammering

Stammering

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