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Yammering vs Mammering - What's the difference?

yammering | mammering |

As verbs the difference between yammering and mammering

is that yammering is present participle of yammer while mammering is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun yammering

is loud, incoherent, repetitive speech.

As an adjective mammering is

hesitating; hesitant; wavering.

yammering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Loud, incoherent, repetitive speech.
  • * (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Lost on Venus
    • Nearer and nearer sounded the hurrying footsteps and the incoherent yammerings of the corpses.

    mammering

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hesitating; hesitant; wavering.
  • *1581 , J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe, Against Jerome Osorius 358 :
    • This doctrine doth abolish quite the doctrine of the law, of repentaunce,..and commaundeth a mammering doubtfulnesse.