Mumble vs Lisp - What's the difference?

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Mumble is a related term of lisp.

As a verb mumble

is (intransitive) to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.

As a noun mumble

is a quiet or unintelligible vocalization.

As a proper noun lisp is

mumble

English

Verb

(intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.

Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.

* Shakespeare

Peace, you mumbling fool.

* Otway

A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.

To chew something gently with closed lips.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

* mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety peg

Noun

(en noun)

A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.

All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.

A low tone of voice.

''He spoke in a mumble .

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

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