Squawk vs Lisp - What's the difference?
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A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.
(aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals.
(aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
The American night heron.
To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
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To speak out; to protest.
To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
(aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code.
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.
Squawk is a related term of lisp.
As a noun squawk
is a shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.As a verb squawk
is to make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.As a proper noun lisp is
.squawk
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
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