stammering

Etymology

noun

  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. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 95

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of stammer

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