Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hesitate; stammer from doubt or hesitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare To
hesitate . - verb rare To
mumble orstammer fromdoubt orhesitation .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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 *mer-, *smer- (“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.
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TV once took me on a trip down mammer ... oh, you said memory lane ... oh, now i see!
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