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noun

Lisp n. The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1. "I overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, "O! Strephon, you are a dangerous creature.""

LISP n. (Computers) 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.

verb

Lisp v. t.

To pronounce with a lisp.

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. "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 again."

To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.

Lisp v. i. (past & past part. lisped; pres. part. lisping)

To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; a defect common among children.

To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. "As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came."

To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid. "Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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