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Dammer vs Mammer - What's the difference?

dammer | mammer |

As a noun dammer

is a clear to yellow resin, obtained in malaya from trees of the genera shorea and of the dipterocarpaceae family, used in varnishes and inks.

As a verb mammer is

(rare) to hesitate.

dammer

English

Alternative forms

* damar * dammar

Noun

(en noun)
  • A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea and of the Dipterocarpaceae family, used in varnishes and inks
  • Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (Araucariaceae family), , native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers.

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    Anagrams

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    mammer

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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 .
  • (rare) To mumble or stammer from doubt or hesitation.

    • Derived terms

    *mammery *mammering