Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who lisps; one who speaks with a natural or affected lisp or imperfectly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lisps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who has a
lisp . - noun programming Someone who programs in the computer language
LISP .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a speaker who lisps
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Examples
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The latest brain-dead decision (to let their lisper in residence, Jonathan Ross, walk from the corporation) is one which confounds me.
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The latest brain-dead decision (to let their lisper in residence, Jonathan Ross, walk from the corporation) is one which confounds me.
If You Want To Be Safe, Don’t Mention My Birthday… « The Graveyard 2010
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BRIAN LAMB, host: James C. Humes, author of "Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter," I understand from your book that you started off in life as a lisper and a stutterer?
Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures 1997
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Churchill was -- didn't go to university, couldn't get in; he was a lisp -- lisper, stutterer.
Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures 1997
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I meant to say how sorry I am for my dear little lisper that she failed in her efforts to conquer the "Hero"; and here I have drifted off in a page of trash that does not concern her in the least.
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Did my little lisper change the message when the little midshipman told her it had been intercepted because too friendly?
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My sweet little lisper informed a select circle of friends the other night, when questioned, that the individual had not called on me, and, what was more, would not do so.
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It is recommended for the little lisper, and in former days it was recommended as a sure cure for the hiccoughs.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Ollie Lord, Chickering, Hull, Skelding, and the others seemed to have been almost deserted by the bees, that were now swarming down upon the hapless lisper, drawn there by the fact that the queen had found lodgment somewhere on Veazie's neck.
Frank Merriwell's Reward Burt L. Standish 1905
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Rupert, with his patent-leather shoes and shining tile, down to the cowardly little lisper, Lew Veazie, they were alike detested.
Frank Merriwell's Reward Burt L. Standish 1905
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