stammering
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Noun
stammering (plural stammerings)
- The act of one who stammers.
- We could not understand his inarticulate stammerings.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 95:
- 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.
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Verb
stammering
- present participle and gerund of stammer