Crossword-Solution: LISP
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lisp | v. i. | To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children. |
| Lisp | v. i. | To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. |
| Lisp | v. i. | To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid. |
| Lisp | v. t. | To pronounce with a lisp. |
| Lisp | v. t. | 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. |
| Lisp | v. t. | To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason. |
| Lisp | n. | The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LISP | anagram | ISPL, LIPS, PILS, PLIS, PSIL, SIPL, SLIP |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with LISP (5)
The name GNU is itself recursive (the mainstay of the LISP language); it stands for "Gnu's Not Unix."} When it is released, everyone will be permitted to copy it and distribute it to others.
Part of this is almost certainly due to influence from LISP (which uses deeply nested parentheses (like this (see?)) in its syntax a lot), but it has also been suggested that a more basic hacker trait of enjoying playing with complexity and pushing systems to their limits is in operation.
They meet in online "meeting places" to debate everything from Africa and the administration of kindergartens to poetry, LISP programming and compressed video for multimedia applications.
Yet there’s the dye, in that rough mesh, The sea has only just o’er-whispered! Live whelks, each lip’s beard dripping fresh, As if they still the water’s lisp heard Through foam the rock-weeds thresh.
You little poets mincing there With women's hearts and women's hair! How sick Dan Chaucer's ghost must be To hear you lisp of "Poesie"! A heavy-handed blow, I think, Would make your veins drip scented ink.
Quotes with LISP (3)
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
Hey dawg, wassup?" he said, in the strange way that white talent agents from Los Angeles do in an attempt to sound like young black men from underprivileged backgrounds. A linguistic fashion as peculiar as the lisp that everybody in medieval Spain had to adopt after the king developed a speech impediment.
New Rule: Death isn’t always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, “Why? Why, God? Why…didn’t you take Pat Robertson with him?” I don’t want to say Jerry was disliked by the gay community, but tonight in New York City, at exactly eight o’clock, Broadway theaters along the Great White Way turned their lights up for two minutes. I know you’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but I think we can make an exception, because speaking…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 477 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).