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insist
English
Etymology
Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin ?nsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Hyphenation: in?sist
Verb
insist (third-person singular simple present insists, present participle insisting, simple past and past participle insisted)
- (with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically.
- (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
- (sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done.
- (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
Translations
Anagrams
- INSTIs, sit-ins, sits in
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lisp
English
Alternative forms
- lipsey
- lithp (humorous)
Etymology
From Middle English lispen, lipsen, wlispen, from Old English *wlispian (attested in ?wlyspian (“to lisp”)), from Old English wlisp, wlips (“stammering, lisping”, adj), from Proto-Germanic *wlispaz (“lisping”), from Proto-Indo-European *wlis-, *wleys- (“rod”), from *wel- (“to turn, roll”). Cognate with Middle Low German wlispen (“to lisp”), Dutch lispen (“to lisp”), German lispeln (“to lisp”), Danish læspe (“to lisp”), Swedish läspa (“to lisp”).
Pronunciation
- Standard: IPA(key): /l?sp/
- Humorous:
- IPA(key): /l??p/
- IPA(key): /l?l?sp/
- Rhymes: -?sp
Noun
lisp (plural lisps)
- The habit or an act of lisping.
Derived terms
- lispy
Translations
Verb
lisp (third-person singular simple present lisps, present participle lisping, simple past and past participle lisped)
- To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/?/, /ð/). This is a speech impediment common among children.
- To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.
- (archaic) To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles
- Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles
- (archaic) to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
- 1848, Henry Walter (editor) William Tyndale (originally author), Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures
- 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 againagain
- 1848, Henry Walter (editor) William Tyndale (originally author), Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures
- (archaic) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
- "You have done well, sir," said Delwood, calmly, as he placed double the amount of Mrs. Santon's bribe in the Signor's hand; "you have done well, sir; and mark my words,—gold can never relieve a guilty conscience! Go, sir, and see that you lisp not a syllable of this to any one."
- 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds
Derived terms
- lisper
Translations
See also
- brogue
- drawl
- lallation
- lilt
- twang
Anagrams
- LIPs, LSPI, lips, pils, slip
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