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lisp       (lĭsp)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A speech defect or mannerism characterized by mispronunciation of the sounds (s) and (z) as (th) and (th).
  2. A sound of or like a lisp: "The carpenter['s] . . . plane whistles its wild ascending lisp" (Walt Whitman).

v.   lisped, lisp·ing, lisps

v.   intr.
  1. To speak with a lisp.
  2. To speak imperfectly, as a child does.

v.   tr.
To pronounce with a lisp.


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

lisp'er n.
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