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▪ I. lisping, vbl. n.|ˈlɪspɪŋ|
[f. lisp v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb lisp (lit., transf., and fig.).
c1440Promp. Parv. 306/2 Lyspynge, sibilatus, blesura. 1625J. King David's Strait 5 Plato's crump-shoulder and Aristotle's lisping. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. §13. 156 For our parts we answer without lisping. 1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 205 Having some defect in her Speech, to wit, a Lisping. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 622 To prevent lisping, stammering, and other such like imperfections. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 10 These first crude attempts at poetry and lispings of the Muse. 1839Longfellow Voices Nt. Prelude xiii, Low lispings of the summer rain.
attrib.1875Tennyson Q. Mary v. ii, I remember How I would dandle you upon my knee At lisping-age.
▪ II. ˈlisping, ppl. a.
[f. lisp v. + -ing2.]
That lisps; (of sounds or utterance) characterized by a lisp or lisping.
1535Coverdale Isa. xxviii. 11 The Lorde also shal speake with lispinge lippes and with a straunge language vnto this people. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 68 A pleasant lisping sound. 1646Fanshawe Guarino's Pastor Fido (1676) 142 Thy lithping gibberish. 1669Holder Elem. Speech 45 The other pair of Lisping and Sibilant Letters. 1776S. J. Pratt Pupil Pleas. (1777) I. 27 A lisping accent. 1827Lytton Pelham iii, I heard my own name pronounced by a very soft, lisping voice. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. v. 17 The father who should impose the obligations of manhood upon a yet lisping son,..would be as unjust as he would be unwise. |