lisp
The act or a habit of lispingThe act or a habit of lisping.
Meaning
1 sensesThe act or a habit of lisping.
He used to have a terrible lisp before going to a speech therapist.
It's common for children to speak with a lisp.
Lispelei
шепеля́востьšepeljávostʹ, шепеля́вениеšepeljávenije
шепеля́вістьšepeljávistʹ
- a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists
- a speech defect that involves pronouncing /s/ like voiceless ‘th’, /θ/ and /z/ like voiced ‘th’, /ð/
Examples
14 sentencesTom has a slight lisp.
Том трохи шепелявить. — deniko
Tom has a lisp.
Tom speaks with a lisp.
ruТом шепелявит. — sharptoothed
deTom lispelt. — Luiaard
He lost his lisp at fourteen.
He had a lisp as a child.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English lispen, lipsen, wlispen, from Old English *wlispian (attested in āwlysFrom Middle English lispen, lipsen, wlispen, from Old English *wlispian (attested in āwlyspian (“to lisp”)), from Old English wlisp, wlips (“stammering, lisping”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *wlispaz (“lisping”), from Proto-Indo-European *wlis-, *wleys- (“rod”), from *wel- (“to turn, roll”). Cognate with Middle Low German wlispen (“to lisp”), Dutch lispen (“to lisp”), German lispeln (“to lisp”), Danish læspe (“to lisp”), Swedish läspa (“to lisp”).
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Forms
plural: lispsSynonyms
1 synonyms- a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists:list-processing language