lispern.
/ˈlɪspə/, U.S. /ˈlɪspər/ One who lisps.
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the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > one who speaks inarticulately > one who lisps
lisperc1440
the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > one who speaks inarticulately > one who lisps > one who affects a lisp
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 306/2 Lyspare, blesus..sibilus.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria iii. f. 31 No man shulde rebuke and scorne a blereyied man or gogylyed, or toungetyed, or lypsar, or a stuttar or fumblar.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician ii. 42 The disaffection of Lispers consists in Conformation, and not at all in Intemperature.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋1 I remember a Race of Lispers, fine Persons, who took an Aversion to particular Letters in our Language.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IX lxxviii. 44 Each lovely lisper Smiled.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. iii. 19 ‘Ah,’ said the lisper, carelessly; ‘but can he write poetry, and play proverbes?’
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n.c1440- circuit breaker
- circuit counsel
- circuit court of justiciary
- circuit edge
- circuit judge
- circuit of action
- circuit steward
- circuit table
- circuit training
- circuit-binding
- circuit-breaker
- circuit-closer
- circuit-commission
- circuit-court
- circuit-journey
- circuit-judge
- circuit-preacher
- circuit-rider
- circuit-room
- circuit-steward
- circuit-superintendent
- circuit-work
- circuital
- circuitbinding
- circuitbreaker