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单词 lisp
释义

lisp1

/lɪsp /
noun
A speech defect in which s is pronounced like th in thick and z is pronounced like th in this: he spoke with a slight lisp...
  • ‘His lisp was a natural speech impediment, but I think [the producers] were concerned over how it would be received,’ he says.
  • In fact he had a curiously dry - albeit pleasant - soft spoken voice that was more soothing than intimidating, and he even had a slight lisp.
  • Drew was missing his two front baby teeth and had possessed a slight lisp from birth, causing his s's to come out as th's.
verb [no object]
Speak with a lisp: she spoke softly, lisping slightly...
  • ‘Man… dey get knock out,’ she lisped, seeing my surprise.
  • The inebriated man drew a sword and sloppily lisped out, ‘You embarrreshed me!’
  • Luckily, this hasn't happened in a long time and, therefore, I haven't lisped since eighth grade.

Derivatives

lisper

noun

lisping

/ˈlɪspɪŋ / adjective ...
  • Afterwards one of them, a lisping seven-year-old by the name of Jimmy Poole, sidles up to him in his office and offers him a half-sucked gobstopper dug up from a fluff-filled corner of his pocket.
  • ‘I'm so sensitive,’ he says in a lisping comedy accent.
  • Freud, born into a secular Jewish family in Berlin in 1922, left Germany in the teeth of the gathering storm and talks in a lisping German accent after nearly 70 years in London.

lispingly

adverb

Origin

Old English wlispian (recorded in āwlyspian), from wlisp (adjective) 'lisping', of imitative origin; compare with Dutch lispen and German lispeln.

Rhymes

Lisp2

/lɪsp /
noun [mass noun]
A high-level computer programming language devised for list processing.Interestingly, they wrote their code primarily in Lisp, an artificial intelligence language most commonly used at universities....
  • A few programming languages - notably Lisp and its offspring - provide integers of unlimited size and exact rationals as built-in data types.
  • His interests also include hiking, amateur radio and programming in Lisp.

Origin

1950s: from lis(t) p(rocessor).

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