Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as lallation.

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Examples

  • In the rare cases where the facts would seem to indicate the truth of the statement, it will be found that the person in question never really stammered -- that his trouble was something else -- lalling, lisping, or some defect of speech that was mistaken for stammering or stuttering.

    Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

  • And now he knew, and smiled: the babble of that lalling tongue was dumb.

    The Lord of the Sea 1906

  • It's all very well when I choose to have a few friends to dinner, but my wife can do very well without your fal-lalling here all day.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848

  • I don't like to see any girl wearying after some fellow to be always fal-lalling with her.

    The American Senator Anthony Trollope 1848

  • She can't go on fal-lalling with you, and then nothing to come of it.

    The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848

  • She can’t go on fal-lalling with you, and then nothing to come of it.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • It’s all very well when I choose to have a few friends to dinner, but my wife can do very well without your fal-lalling here all day.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

  • I don’t like to see any girl wearying after some fellow to be always fal-lalling with her.

    The American Senator 2004

  • “Why, if I was to be fal-lalling with that married woman, you wouldn’t like it.

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • "Why, if I was to be fal-lalling with that married woman, you wouldn't like it.

    The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope 1848

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