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say it: lisp
lisp is a noun and verb meaning "a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists
speak with a lisp
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lisp come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.