Yelp vs Lisp - What's the difference?
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An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail siren-sound.
To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.
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.
Yelp is a related term of lisp.
As a noun yelp
is an abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.As a verb yelp
is to utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.As a proper noun lisp is
.yelp
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The children yelped with delight as they played in the cold water.
lisp
English
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