lisp

lisp is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
2. intransitive verb. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
3. intransitive verb. To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
4. transitive verb. To pronounce with a lisp.
5. transitive verb. To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
6. transitive verb. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
7. noun. The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.
8. noun. a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists
9. noun. a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
10. verb. speak with a lisp

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lisp:

lips, slip

Common word forms

lisps, lisped, lisper, lisping

Words from these letters

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