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Lisped vs Lipped - What's the difference?

lisped | lipped |

As a verb lisped

is (lisp).

As an adjective lipped is

having a raised lip.

lisped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lisp)

    • Anagrams

    *

    lisp

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The habit or an act of lisping.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ () — a defect common amongst children.
  • To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, / I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
  • To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
  • * Drayton
    • Lest when my lisping , guilty tongue should halt.
  • To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
  • * Tyndale
    • to speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again
  • To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
    • to lisp treason

    See also

    * brogue * drawl * lilt * twang

    Anagrams

    * *

    lipped

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • having a raised lip
  • (in combination) having some specific type of lip
    • We met a yellow-lipped woman.

    Derived terms

    * tight-lipped