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- noun Plural form of
lisp . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
lisp .
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Examples
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Side effects may include pain if turned too aggressively, headache, excess saliva and temporary speech impediments, such as lisps and garbling.
The 8-Year-Old With a Perfect Smile Nancy Keates 2010
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Who knows, I could also be prejudiced against people with lisps, hearing problems and english pronunciation issues of all flavours.
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I find that their little people lisps really add the character that this music is often missing.
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Stop with the limp wrists and the lisps and the butch/dyke jokes.
Sharon Stapel: Teen Suicide Epidemic: How Could This Happen? Sharon Stapel 2010
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With their lisps and mispronounciations, you just wish you could keep a video camera on them at all times (in a non - J+K+8 sort of way).
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Count on the laughs when the mysterious Limping Man lisps this appeal in the dark comedy "Fuddy Meers."
1st Stage's 'Fuddy Meers': Long on laughs, short on meaning 2011
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Stop with the limp wrists and the lisps and the butch/dyke jokes.
Sharon Stapel: Teen Suicide Epidemic: How Could This Happen? Sharon Stapel 2010
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We were playing with voices today and the instruction was “do the voice of a stupid person” and of course everyone instantly developed speech impediments, lisps, et cetera.
The Wisdom of Clowns 2009
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Really, it is the cutest thing ever to hear little children talk – especially with their little lisps and accents and bad grammar!
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Owen says, awesomely: Emilio rather heavily lisps to us that there's nothing wrong with Mila as a person, but as a designer he thinks she's too cocky.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Marie Clairvoyance Una LaMarche 2010
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