[-ING2.] That stammers. Often transf. and fig.
Stammering micturition: see STAMMERING vbl. sb. 2.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxi. (1495), 128. Kyndly stamerynge men stamere for tomoche moisture of the brayne other of the tongue.
a. 1529. Skelton, Sp. Parrot, 212. Parrot is no stameryng stare, that men call a starlyng.
1560. Bible (Geneva), Isa. xxviii. 11. A stammering tongue.
1579. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden), 74. Lett this stammringe letter suffize for a dutifull sollicitour.
1689. Lond. Gaz., No. 2453/4. He had a Scar in his left Cheek, and stammering Speech.
1704. Steele, Tender Husb., I. ii. I saw you … prompt a stammering witness in Westminster Hall.
1818. Cobbett, Pol. Reg., XXXIII. 273. Those maudling, stammering effusions which they call speeches.
1868. Paget, in Brit. Med. Jrnl., 24 Oct., 437/1. Stammering urinary organs.
1888. Chiene, in Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 191. The condition termed by Sir James Paget stammering micturition.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 419. There may be a sort of stammering articulation for days.
Hence Stammeringly adv., Stammeringness.
1545. Elyot, Dict., Titubanter, stameringly.
1637. Ld. Wariston, Diary (1911), 276. Lord, thou knouest the stammeringnes, or rather the unskraiped overhaistings of my tongue.
1785. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 16 Dec. I stammeringly answered—‘I thought—sir—it would look very well in print!’
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., X. 53. Then one … Spoke as he dared, set stammeringly forth…. How nowise lacked there precedent for this.
