different between yell vs lisp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?ellen, yellen, from Old English ?iellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellan?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).

Verb

yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)

1. (intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
2. (transitive) to convey by shouting

   He yelled directions to the party from the car.

3. (slang) to tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner)

   If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.

Usage notes

To yell at someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.

Synonyms

• (shout): call, cry, holler, shout
• See also Thesaurus:shout

Derived terms

Related terms

• gale
• yelp

Translations

Noun

yell (plural yells)

1. A shout.
2. A phrase to be shouted.
   • 1912, The Michigan Alumnus (volume 18, page 152)

     After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings […]

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).

Adjective

yell (not comparable)

1. (Ulster) dry (of cow)

Anagrams

• Lyle

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?l/
• Hyphenation: yell
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

yell m (plural yells)

1. yell, a slogan to be shouted, especially in sports or games (e.g. by players, cheerleaders or the audience)

Related terms

• gil
• gillen
• yellen

Middle English

Noun

yell

1. Alternative form of ?elle

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:
  1. IPA^(key): /l??p/
  2. IPA^(key): /l?l?sp/
• Rhymes: -?sp

Noun

lisp (plural lisps)

1. 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)

1. To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/?/, /ð/). This is a speech impediment common among children.

2. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.
3. (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.

4. (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
5. (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."

Derived terms

• lisper

Translations

See also

• brogue
• drawl
• lallation
• lilt
• twang

Anagrams

• LIPs, LSPI, lips, pils, slip