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mammering

mammering is the present participle and gerund of mammer.

Meaning of mammer

Verb

mammer (third-person singular simple present mammers, present participle mammering, simple past and past participle mammered)

  1. (rare) To hesitate.
    • Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny, Or stand so mammering on — Shakespeare, Othello.
  2. (rare) To mumble or stammer from doubt or hesitation.

Adjective

mammering (comparative more mammering, superlative most mammering)

  1. Hesitating; hesitant; wavering.
    • This doctrine doth abolish quite the doctrine of the law, of repentaunce,..and commaundeth a mammering doubtfulnesse.1581, J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe, Against Jerome Osorius 358

Forms of mammering

comparativemore mammering
superlativemost mammering

Origin of mammering

From mammer + -ing.

Questions about mammering

What does mammering mean?
Mammering means hesitating; hesitant; wavering.
What is mammering the present participle and gerund of?
Mammering is the present participle and gerund of mammer.
What part of speech is mammering?
Mammering is an adjective.

Words near mammering in the dictionary

  1. mammees
  2. Mammen
  3. Mammens
  4. mammer
  5. mammered
  6. mammering
  7. mammers
  8. mammery
  9. mammet
  10. mammetries
  11. mammetry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mammering (page history and authors); mammer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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