Liss vs Lisp - What's the difference?
liss | lisp |
Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.
Comfort; happiness.
A respite from pain.
To ease; lighten; relieve; abate.
To blin; cease; stop.
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
To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
* Drayton
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 with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
As a noun liss
is (exercise) l'ow '''i'''ntensity]] '''s'''teady [[state|' s tate; a form of exercise that utilizes prolonged periods of effort at a steady pace, such as jogging.As a proper noun lisp is
.liss
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) lis, lisse, lysse, from (etyl) liss, . See (l).Noun
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lissen, lyssen, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(es)lisp
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, / I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
- Lest when my lisping , guilty tongue should halt.
- 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 lisp treason