Pronunciations (3)
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/lɪsp/
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/lɪθp/
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/lɪl͡sp/
Noun
The act or a habit of lisping.
- Examples
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He used to have a terrible lisp before going to a speech therapist.
It's common for children to speak with a lisp.
Verb
To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/, /ð/). This is a speech impediment common among children.
Usage- Intransitive
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Until the age of 10, Dominic would lisp, but this was fixed by a speech therapist.
To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.
Usage- Intransitive
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As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came.
To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
Usage- Archaic
- Intransitive
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Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
Usage- Archaic
- Intransitive
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More examples (1)
But the fashion spreads deeper and wider; the village is infected and the village green; Amelias and Claras sweep your rooms and cook your dinners, gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline.
to speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp the words unto them , according as the babes and children of that age might sound them againagain
To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
Usage- Archaic
- Intransitive
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to lisp treason
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"You have done well, sir," said Delwood, calmly, as he placed double the amount of Mrs. Santon's bribe in the Signor's hand; "you have done well, sir; and mark my words,—gold can never relieve a guilty conscience! Go, sir, and see that you lisp not a syllable of this to any one."
Noun
a speech defect that involves pronouncing /s/ like voiceless ‘th’, /θ/ and /z/ like voiced ‘th’, /ð/
- Broader terms
Verb
speak with a lisp