lisp
/lɪsp/
verb
- To speak with a lisp, mispronouncing the sounds 's' and 'z'.
- The little boy lisped when he tried to say 'snake'.
- He used to lisp as a child, but speech therapy helped him.
- She lisped slightly when she was nervous.
noun
- A speech disorder or habit in which a person has trouble pronouncing the sounds 's' and 'z', often making them sound like 'th'.
- The child's lisp made it hard for others to understand his 's' sounds.
- His slight lisp gave his voice a soft, distinctive quality.
- She went to a speech therapist to correct her lisp.
- A high-level programming language, often used in artificial intelligence research, known for its use of parentheses and list processing.
- He learned Lisp in his computer science class to understand functional programming.
- Many early AI programs were written in Lisp.
- Lisp's syntax uses many parentheses, which can be confusing for beginners.