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stammering

stammering noun: the act of one who stammers. Also the present participle and gerund of stammer.

Noun

stammering (plural stammerings)

  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

Also used as

stammering is also the present participle and gerund of stammer.

stammering meaning in Tagalog

stammering in Tagalog

act of stammering
pagkautal

Forms of stammering

pluralstammerings

Questions about stammering

What does stammering mean?
Stammering means the act of one who stammers.
What is stammering in Tagalog?
Stammering in Tagalog is pagkautal. See Stammering meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is stammering?
Stammering is a noun.
What is the plural of stammering?
The plural of stammering is stammerings.

Words near stammering in the dictionary

  1. stammered
  2. stammerer
  3. stammerers
  4. stammerest
  5. stammereth
  6. stammering
  7. stammeringly
  8. stammerings
  9. stammers
  10. stammerwort
  11. stammery

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