lisp
6
7.3
- noun
- /lɪsp/
- Specialized
:
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- His lisp made it difficult for him to pronounce certain words clearly.
- a slight lisp
- a little lisp
He was a great character, yet speaks with a lisp.
- He was a great character, yet speaks with a lisp.
- Cassian takes Vegas's lisp, and he's a Latin Westerner.
- That's like some me shit, that lisp tube.
- They were there for like lisps, stutters and stuff like that.
- Go to your frog has a lisp.
- Just to share how sweet Jack when I rude about him and doing his lisp.
- It's yeah, like people with lisps, like they're, you know, or like you're like trans people in sports.
Examples
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Once, a teacher told me I have a lisp.
Fiction book (2002) -
I seemed to have acquired a slight lisp and sounded very Bostonian.
Fiction book (1997) -
I kind of have a little lisp once in a while.
Blog text (25) -
Hey, my lisp is gone.
Fiction book (1996) -
- He had a lisp.
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Do you know you have a lisp?
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And now I have a lisp.
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That creepy kid with the lisp?
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"I'm always sad." Her voice was higher, hesitant, with a trace of a lisp.
Fiction book (1992) -
My job is to help children find their voices—kinds that come to school mute, or with lisps or cleft palates.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
Saying speech sounds the wrong way, often in children
A problem that makes someone speak unclearly or have trouble saying words
Compounds
How Severe
- Specialized
3
9.2
- Specialized
- Specialized
17
4.1
- Specialized
6
7.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lisp is a word that many people think copies the soft sound made when an 's' becomes a 'th'. So, a lisp names the speech problem where 's' and 'z' are spoken like 'th'.