From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Lisp \Lisp\ (l[i^]sp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lisped} (l[i^]spt);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Lisping}.] [OE. lispen, lipsen, AS. wlisp
stammering, lisping; akin to D. & OHG. lispen to lisp, G.
lispeln, Sw. l[aum]spa, Dan. lespe.]
1. To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s
and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
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2. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as
a child learning to talk.
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As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. --Pope.
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3. To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
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Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
--Drayton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Lisp \Lisp\, v. t.
1. To pronounce with a lisp.
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2. 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.
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To speak unto them after their own capacity, and to
lisp the words unto them according as the babes and
children of that age might sound them again.
--Tyndale.
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3. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or
confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Lisp \Lisp\, n.
The habit or act of lisping. See {Lisp}, v. i., 1.
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I overheard her answer, with a very pretty lisp, "O!
Strephon, you are a dangerous creature." --Tatler.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
LISP \LISP\ (l[i^]sp), n. (Computers) [List Processing.]
a high-level computer programming language in which
statements and data are in the form of lists, enclosed in
parentheses; -- used especially for rapid development of
prototype programs in artificial intelligence applications .
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lisp
n 1: a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like
voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
2: a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that
manipulates symbols in the form of lists [syn: {LISP}, {list-
processing language}]
v 1: speak with a lisp
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
LISP
n.
[from ?LISt Processing language?, but mythically from ?Lots of Irritating
Superfluous Parentheses?] AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas
of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b)
the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa. Invented by John
McCarthy at MIT in the late 1950s, it is actually older than any other
{HLL} still in use except FORTRAN. Accordingly, it has undergone
considerable adaptive radiation over the years; modern variants are quite
different in detail from the original LISP 1.5. The dominant HLL among
hackers until the early 1980s, LISP has since shared the throne with {C}.
Its partisans claim it is the only language that is truly beautiful. See
{languages of choice}.
All LISP functions and programs are expressions that return values; this,
together with the high memory utilization of LISPs, gave rise to Alan
Perlis's famous quip (itself a take on an Oscar Wilde quote) that ?LISP
programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing?.
One significant application for LISP has been as a proof by example that
most newer languages, such as {COBOL} and Ada, are full of unnecessary
{crock}s. When the {Right Thing} has already been done once, there is no
justification for {bogosity} in newer languages.
[lisp]
We've got your numbers....
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]:
LISP
LISt Processor (LISP)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]:
LISP
Lots of Isolated Silly Parentheses (LISP, slang)
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