traulism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek τραυλός (traulós, “a lisping”) + -ism.
Noun
[edit]traulism (countable and uncountable, plural traulisms)
- (obsolete) A stammering or stuttering.
- c. 1660-1680, George Dalgarno, A Discourse of the Nature and Number of Double Consonants
- I know not what other censure to pass on them, but that they are childish and ridiculous traulisms.
- c. 1660-1680, George Dalgarno, A Discourse of the Nature and Number of Double Consonants