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Lisp vs Stutter - What's the difference?

lisp | stutter |

As nouns the difference between lisp and stutter

is that lisp is the habit or an act of lisping while stutter is a speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

As verbs the difference between lisp and stutter

is that lisp is to pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ ({{IPA|/θ /ð/|lang=en}}) — a defect common amongst children while stutter is to speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

As a proper noun Lisp

is a functional programming language with a distinctive parenthesized syntax, much used in artificial intelligence.

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

    * *

    stutter

    English

    (wikipedia stutter)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
    • He stuttered a few words of thanks.
  • To exhaust a gas with difficulty
    • The engine of the old car stuttered''' going up the slope. I was '''stuttering after the marathon .

    Synonyms

    * (speak with spasmodic repetition) stammer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.
  • (obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * stammer

    Derived terms

    * covert stutter * pseudostuttering * stutterer English reporting verbs