dial. [See STAM v.2] trans. To astonish; to overcome with amazement.

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  Hence Stamming ppl. a., fine, excellent; Stammingly adv., extremely, excellently.

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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.

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a. 1800.  Pegge, Suppl. Grose, Stam’d, amazed. Norf. and Suff.

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1814.  in J. Glyde, New Suffolk Garl. (1866), 271. How stammin cow’d ’tis now-a-days. Ibid. We’re all stammenly set up about that there corn bill.

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, s.v. Stam, It is a stamming story indeed!

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1893.  in Cozens-Hardy, Broad Norf., 7. Her wise husband would perhaps be stammed that she should be so careless.

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