lisp

The act or a habit of lisping.

He used to have a terrible lisp before going to a speech therapist.

It's common for children to speak with a lisp.

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.

Until the age of 10, Dominic would lisp, but this was fixed by a speech therapist.

To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.

As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came.

To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.

Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.

to express by the use of simple, childlike language.

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.

to speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp the words unto them , according as the babes and children of that age might sound them againagain

To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.

to lisp treason

"You have done well, sir," said Delwood, calmly, as he placed double the amount of Mrs. Santon's bribe in the Signor's hand; "you have done well, sir; and mark my words,—gold can never relieve a guilty conscience! Go, sir, and see that you lisp not a syllable of this to any one."

A functional programming language with a distinctive parenthesized syntax, much used in artificial intelligence.