A speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'.

Roget 583: inarticulateness; stammering etc. v.; hesitation etc. v.; impediment in one's speech; titubancy^†, traulism^†; whisper etc. (faint sound) 405; lisp, drawl, tardiloquence^†; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto etc. (want of voice) 581; broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.    brogue etc. 563; slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae [Lat.].    ... show more

Polish: sygmatyzm, seplenienie

A flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists.

synonym: list-processing language.

Polish: Lisp

Speak with a lisp.

Roget 583: stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate^†, balbucinate^†, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.    mumble, mutter; maud^†, mauder^†; whisper etc. 405; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump^†; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay^†.    ... show more