Risped vs Lisped - What's the difference?
risped | lisped |
(risp)
to rub together, to rasp or grate
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(lisp)
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 risped
is (risp).As a verb lisped is
(lisp).risped
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*risp
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Verb
(en verb)- that Greek waste silent but for the risp of the tettix and the wash of listless wind through the spare grass.
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* *lisped
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*lisp
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* (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
