Definitions for LISP

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LISP lisp

Spelling: [lisp]

IPA: /lɪsp/

Lisp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in LISP (ilps).

Definitions for LISP

noun

1. a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
2. Phonetics. any unconventional articulation of the sibilants, as the pronunciation of s and z with the tongue between the teeth (lingual protrusion lisp) close to or touching the upper front teeth (dental lisp) or raised so that the breath is emitted laterally (lateral lisp)
3. the act, habit, or sound of lisping.
4. a high-level programming language that processes data in the form of lists: widely used in artificial intelligence applications.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to pronounce or speak with a lisp.
2. to speak imperfectly, especially in a childish manner.

Origin of LISP

before 1100; Middle English wlispen, lipsen, Old English āwlyspian; akin to Dutch lisp(el)en, German lispeln, Norwegian leipsa

Examples for LISP

We boys were to club and pay for the rockets, and no one else was to know a lisp of the plan.

His arms are covered in tattoos, and he speaks with a bit of a lisp—a remnant, he says, of his California upbringing.

And Jane could not make up her mind to lisp and "talk baby," even to a burglar.

Like Josephine's lisp, it is a defect that serves for a distinction.

"There ith, too," she chuckled, her lisp getting the better of her.

She can aid it to lisp the first accents of its native tongue.

We cannot, of course, convey the slightest idea of the infantine Eskimo lisp.

He78 has a lisp when he talks too, and that makes him seem cuter'n ever.

Fortunately there are no brilliant sayings to record; he did not lisp in periods.

Toddlerspeak: the lisp that launched a thousand Facebook updates.