lisp

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or a habit of lisping.
    — He used to have a terrible lisp before going to a speech therapist.
动词 v.
  1. To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/, /ð/). This is a speech impediment common among children. intransitive
    — Until the age of 10, Dominic would lisp, but this was fixed by a speech therapist.
  2. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk. intransitive
    — As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came.
  3. To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid. archaic,intransitive
    — Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
  4. to express by the use of simple, childlike language. archaic,intransitive
    — But the fashion spreads deeper and wider; the village is infected and the village green; Amelias and Claras sweep your rooms and cook your dinners, gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline.
  5. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially. archaic,intransitive
    — to lisp treason

词形变化

lisps plural lipsey alternative lithp alternative lisps present,singular,third-person lisping participle,present lisped participle,past lisped past lipsey alternative lithp alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
lisper lispingly unlisping
相关词
brogue drawl lallation lilt twang

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lispen, lipsen, wlispen, from Old English *wlispian (attested in āwlyspian (“to lisp”)), from Old English wlisp, wlips (“stammering, lisping”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *wlispaz (“lisping”), from Proto-Indo-European *wlis-, *wleys- (“rod”), from *wel- (“to turn, roll”). Cognate with Middle Low German wlispen (“to lisp”), Dutch lispen (“to lisp”), German lispeln (“to lisp”), Danish læspe (“to lisp”), Swedish läspa (“to lisp”).
词源 2
From Middle English lispen, lipsen, wlispen, from Old English *wlispian (attested in āwlyspian (“to lisp”)), from Old English wlisp, wlips (“stammering, lisping”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *wlispaz (“lisping”), from Proto-Indo-European *wlis-, *wleys- (“rod”), from *wel- (“to turn, roll”). Cognate with Middle Low German wlispen (“to lisp”), Dutch lispen (“to lisp”), German lispeln (“to lisp”), Danish læspe (“to lisp”), Swedish läspa (“to lisp”).
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