maffler

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noun

A stammerer.

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Meanings

nounmaffler (plural mafflers)

plural mafflers

  1. obsoleteA stammerer.

    […] they alſo abuſe their power, and go too far in their commandements, (for ſo they be called at the wine ) who enjoyne ſtutters, ſtammerers, and mafflers to ſing, […]

    1657, “The Sympofiaques, or Table-Questions.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophy, Commonly Called, the Morals, Written by the Learned Philoſopher Plutarch of Chaeronea, page 535

Origin

From maffle + -er.

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Chicago

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