[f. STAMMER v. + -ER1.] One who stammers.

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  α.  a. 1513.  Fabyan’s Chron., VI. clxxiii. (1811), 170. Lodowycus Balbus, whiche is to meane Lewys ye Stamerer.

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1547.  Boorde, Brev. Health, xli. 21. If it [i.e., stuttering] do come with beyng in the company of a stutter or stamerer, a man must refrayne the company of a stutter.

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1611.  Bible, Isa. xxxii. 4. The tongue of the stammerers shall bee readie to speake plainely.

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a. 1637.  B. Jonson, Discoveries, De vita humana (1640), 105. Like Children, that imitate the vices of Stammerers so long, till at last they become such.

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1738.  Gentl. Mag., VIII. 35/1. A Stammerer is generally of a Fiery Temper.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 212. Cardiac defects are frequent in stammerers.

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  β.  1552.  Huloet, Stambrer, titubator. Stambrer in readynge, offensator.

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  b.  fig.

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1580.  G. Harvey, Three Proper Lett., iii. 45. A fewe suche stammerers as haue not the masterie of their owne Tongues.

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1654.  R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 150. What mighty lines hath Isaiah?… read, and confesse Demosthenes and Cicero, but Stammerers at Eloquence.

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1780.  Mirror, No. 97. She … is a very stammerer in infidelity.

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1868.  Geo. Eliot, Span. Gipsy, I. 135. Poor eager hope is but a stammerer.

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