Meaning

The act or a habit of lisping..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act or a habit of lisping.
2. (intransitive) 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.
3. (intransitive) To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
5. (intransitive, archaic) to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
6. (intransitive, archaic) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.

Example Sentences

He used to have a terrible lisp before going to a speech therapist.

It's common for children to speak with a lisp.

Until the age of 10, Dominic would lisp, but this was fixed by a speech therapist.

As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came.

Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.

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 lisp treason

Word Forms

• lisps
• lipsey
• lithp
• lisping
• lisped

Synonyms for lisp 15

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