Lallate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Lallate is a verb meaning To speak pronouncing the letter "r" so that it sounds like "l".
Meaning
To speak pronouncing the letter "r" so that it sounds like "l".
More Meanings
- To speak like a baby.
Example Sentences
[…] he was pulled in by the smell of fresh coffee and the sound of Isabel and Rosalinda burbling and lallating together.
Meanwhile I go on troweling, slavering the world with language as Jake squeals like a held bird and begins lallating to me in tongues.
[…] the therapist would start tiresomely lallating over and over and over again what her therapeutic philosophies and goals and wishes for the depressed person were […]
Word Forms
- lallates
- lallating
- lallated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lall, la-la, labiate, latrate, labialize, loll.
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