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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

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yelp

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
  • The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.
  • A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail siren-sound.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.
  • The children yelped with delight as they played in the cold water.

    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

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