lisp

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And her lisp is annoying if she paid as much attention to her lips and teeth as she does her attire she would look altogether.

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  1. noun A speech defect or mannerism characterized by mispronunciation of the sounds (s) and (z) as (th) and (th).
  2. noun A sound of or like a lisp: "The carpenter['s] . . . plane whistles its wild ascending lisp” (Walt Whitman).
  3. intransitive verb To speak with a lisp.
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  • Before he could speak without a childish lisp, his mother taught him to decide on his own actions. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, V9
  • They all affect a little soft lisp, and a pretty pitty-pat step; which female frailties ought, however, to be forgiven them, in favour of their civility and good nature to strangers, which I have a great deal of reason to praise. —  Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
  • Visual Lisp adds new feature sets to lisp, allowing it to extend its influence to access additional object model —  All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
  • The lisp is a nice counterpoint to the head-banging death-metal soundtrack. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • And her lisp is annoying if she paid as much attention to her lips and teeth as she does her attire she would look altogether. —  Bossip.com
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From Middle English lispen, to lisp, from Old English -wlyspian (in āwlyspian, to lisp), from wlisp, lisping.

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  1. Also dial. lipsey; from Middle English lipse, lispen, lipsen, from Anglo-Saxon *wlispian (not recorded) (= Dutch lispen = Middle Low German wlispen = Old High German Middle High German lispen, G. diminutive or freq. lispeln = Swedish läspa = Danish læspe), lisp, from wlisp, wlips (= Old High German lisp), lisping, stammering; prob. orig. imitative.
  2. from lisp, v.
 

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