different between mammer vs rammer

English

Etymology

From Middle English mameren (“to hesitate, be undecided, waver, mutter”), from Old English m?mrian, m?morian (“to think through, deliberate, plan out, design”), from Proto-Germanic *maimr?n? (“to take care, worry”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *smer- (“to fall into thought, remember, take care”). Related to Old English m?mor (“deep thought, deep sleep, unconsciousness”), Old English mimorian (“to remember”), Dutch mijmeren (“to ponder, muse”). More at remember.

Verb

mammer (third-person singular simple present mammers, present participle mammering, simple past and past participle mammered)

1. (rare) 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.

2. (rare) To mumble or stammer from doubt or hesitation.

Derived terms

• mammery
• mammering

Translations

English

Etymology

ram +? -er

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rammer (plural rammers)

1. A device used to ram; a ramrod.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words (volume 6, page 387)

     A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.

   • […] I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun […]

2. One who rams.

Derived terms

• rammerman

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rammer m or f

1. indefinite plural of ramme

Verb

rammer

1. present of ramme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rammer f

1. indefinite plural of ramme