Wisped vs Lisped - What's the difference?
wisped | lisped |
(wisp)
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
* Dryden
A whisk, or small broom.
A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
* Tennyson
(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 verbs the difference between wisped and lisped
is that wisped is (wisp) while lisped is (lisp).wisped
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Verb
(head)wisp
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Noun
(en noun)- A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.
- A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.
- in a small basket, on a wisp of hay
- the wisp that flickers where no foot can tread
Derived terms
* will o' the wisplisped
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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