dial. [See STAM v.2] trans. To astonish; to overcome with amazement.
Hence Stamming ppl. a., fine, excellent; Stammingly adv., extremely, excellently.
1578. In Prayse rare beauty, in T. Proctor, Gorg. Gallery, H iiij. They with their Muses could not haue pronounst the fame, Of D. faire Dame, lo, a staming stock, the cheefe of natures frame.
a. 1800. Pegge, Suppl. Grose, Stamd, amazed. Norf. and Suff.
1814. in J. Glyde, New Suffolk Garl. (1866), 271. How stammin cowd tis now-a-days. Ibid. Were all stammenly set up about that there corn bill.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, s.v. Stam, It is a stamming story indeed!
1893. in Cozens-Hardy, Broad Norf., 7. Her wise husband would perhaps be stammed that she should be so careless.