mammer

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Definition of mammer in English English dictionary

To mumble or stammer from doubt or hesitation

To hesitate

Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny, Or stand so mammering on — Shakespeare, Othello.

{n} one who goes masked, a masker

To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully

{f} stutter, stammer; hesitate, mutter with a doubt

Hyphenation

mam·mer

Etymology

(intransitive verb.) circa 1555. From Middle English mameren (“to hesitate, be undecided, waver, mutter”), from Old English māmrian, māmorian (“to think through, deliberate, plan out, design”), from Proto-Germanic *maimrōnan (“to take care, worry”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to fall into thought, remember, take care”). Related to Old English māmor (“deep thought, deep sleep, unconsciousness”), Old English mimorian (“to remember”), Dutch mijmeren (“to ponder, muse”). More at remember.

Tenses

mammering, mammered