Lisp

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A speech defect or mannerism characterized by mispronunciation of the sounds (s) and (z) as (th) and (th).
  • n. A sound of or like a lisp: "The carpenter['s] . . . plane whistles its wild ascending lisp” ( Walt Whitman).
  • verb-intransitive. To speak with a lisp.
  • verb-intransitive. To speak imperfectly, as a child does.
  • v. To pronounce with a lisp.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The habit or an act of lisping.
  • v. To pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (IPA: /θ / ð/) — a defect common amongst children.
  • v. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
  • v. To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
  • v. To pronounce with a lisp.
  • v. To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
  • v. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
  • verb-intransitive. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
  • verb-intransitive. To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
  • v. To pronounce with a lisp.
  • v. To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
  • v. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
  • n. The habit or act of lisping. See lisp, v. i., 1.
  • n. a high-level computer programming language in which statements and data are in the form of lists, enclosed in parentheses; -- used especially for rapid development of prototype programs in artificial intelligence applications .
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pronounce the sibilant letters s and z imperfectly, as by giving the sound of th (as in thin) or Ŧh (as in this, either.)
  • To speak imperfectly, as in childhood; make feeble, imperfect, or tentative efforts at speaking; hence, to speak in a hesitating, modest way.
  • To pronounce with a lisp or imperfectly.
  • n. The habit or act of lisping, as in uttering th for s, and Ŧh for z; an indistinct utterance, as of a child.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists
  • n. a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
  • v. speak with a lisp
  • Verb Form
    lisped    lisping    lisps   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    brogue    twang    lilt    drawl   
    Form
    lisped    lisping   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    crisp    wisp   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stammer    huskiness    brogue    wistfulness    prattle    pout    lilt    mischievousness    nudge    smirk