- 1大舌頭；把 s、z 唸成 th（不是結巴，也不是口音）
A lisp is a way of speaking where s and often z come out more like th. So sip can sound a bit like thip, and zoo a bit like thoo. Some people have this from childhood; some grow out of it; some keep it. It is also a verb: to lisp, she lisps, a lisping voice. Dictionaries used to call it a “fault,” and some children were made to feel small for it — though actually it is often just a different setting of the tongue, sitting nearer the teeth. It is not a stammer (getting stuck on a word) and not an accent. People use the noun and the verb in ordinary English; it is a plain description, not a medical lecture, but it can still sting if you use it to tease. The computer word LISP is a different thing altogether (an old programming language), and does not belong here.
組成From Middle English lispen, from Old English wlisp / wlips (lisping). The old wl- at the front later simplified. Related verbs live in Dutch, German, Danish, and Swedish, from the same Germanic root.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Lispname
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A functional programming language with a distinctive parenthesized syntax, much used in artificial intelligence.
lispnoun/lɪsp/
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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.
lispverb/lɪsp/
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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.
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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.
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archaicTo speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
- Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
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archaicto 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
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archaicTo 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."
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。