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