stammering

Roget category 583

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering

noun

inarticulateness — stammering etc. v. — hesitation etc. v. — impediment in one's speech — titubancy^†, traulism^† — whisper etc. (faint sound) 405 — lisp, drawl, tardiloquence^† — nasal tone, nasal accent — twang — falsetto etc. (want of voice) 581 — broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.
brogue etc. 563 — slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae [Lat.].

verb

stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer — balbutiate^†, balbucinate^†, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.
mumble, mutter — maud^†, mauder^† — whisper etc. 405 — mince, lisp — jabber, gibber — sputter, splutter — muffle, mump^† — drawl, mouth — croak — speak thick, speak through the nose — snuffle, clip one's words — murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English — mispronounce, missay^†.

adjective

stammering etc. v. — inarticulate, guttural, nasal — tremulous — affected.

adverb

sotto voce [Lat.] etc. (faintly) 405.

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