different between spammer vs stammer

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æm?(r)

Etymology 1

From spam +? -er.

Noun

spammer (plural spammers)

1. (computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam.

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of space +? hammer

Noun

spammer (plural spammers)

1. A spring-loaded mechanical hammer specially adapted to be used in microgravity.

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English spammer.

Noun

spammer c (singular definite spammeren, plural indefinite spammere)

1. (computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam, a spammer.

Inflection

Etymology 2

See spamme.

Verb

spammer

1. present of spamme

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English spammer. Equivalent to spammen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?.m?r/
• Hyphenation: spam?mer

Noun

spammer m (plural spammers)

1. A spammer.

French

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English spammer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.mœ?/

Noun

spammer m (plural spammers)

1. (computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam, a spammer.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.me/

Verb

spammer

1. (computing, Internet) To spam.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (a spammer) spammeur

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spame?/, [?spa.me?]

• IPA^(key): /es?pame?/, [es?pa.me?]

Noun

spammer m (plural spammeres)

1. spammer

English

Etymology

From Middle English stameren, from Old English stamerian, from Proto-West Germanic *stamr?n, from Proto-Germanic *stamr?n? (“to stammer”). Compare German stammeln, Dutch stameren, Old Norse stammr. Doublet of stumble.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?stæm?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?stæm?/
• Rhymes: -æm?(?)

Verb

stammer (third-person singular simple present stammers, present participle stammering, simple past and past participle stammered)

1. (intransitive) To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
2. (transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

   He blushed, and stammered a few words of apology.

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:

     The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.

Synonyms

• stutter

Translations

Noun

stammer (plural stammers)

1. The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stammer”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• stremma

Danish

Noun

stammer c

1. indefinite plural of stamme

Verb

stammer

1. present of stamme

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stammer m

1. indefinite plural of stamme

Verb

stammer

1. present tense of stamme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• stammar

Noun

stammer m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of stamme