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stammering

nounverbcommon in dialogue

The act of one who stammers.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who stammers.

    We could not understand his inarticulate stammerings.

    At that point, humanity crosses another threshold, miniaturizes its universe into symbolic form, and takes a toddling step toward iconography, writing, and the first stammerings of calendrical notation and mathematics.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of stammerpresent participle and gerund of stammer

Forms

plural
stammerings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).