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Lisp

noun

A speech defect that involves pronouncing 's' like voiceless 'th' and 'z' like voiced 'th'.

A flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists. Synonym: list-processing language.

verb

(past & past part. lisped; pres. part. lisping)

Speak with a lisp.

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"Lisp" Quotes from Famous Books

... and rear you, when you are unable to help yourselves; to guide your first steps, and teach you to lisp your first syllables. For this purpose, God has given her qualities that attract sympathy and engender love. She is so constituted as to impart a charm to your lives, to share in your labors, to soothe you when you are ruffled, to smooth your pillow ...

— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien

... can be no mistake about it," replied Jenkins, from whose speech, strange to say, the lisp ...

— The Iron Horse • R.M. Ballantyne

... more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees ...

— Graded Memory Selections • Various

... do some persons stammer and lisp? A. Sometimes through the moistness of the tongue and brain, as in children, who cannot speak plainly nor pronounce many letters. Sometimes it happeneth by reason of the shrinking of certain sinews which go to the tongue, which are ...

— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous

... the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ...

— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

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