2. Noun. (plural of lisper) ¹
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Definition of Lispers
1. lisper [n] - See also: lisper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lispers
Literary usage of Lispers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking (1917)
"His statistics show 1.6% of lispers, 7% of stutterers, .4 of one per cent with
some other form of speech defect. Dr. Blanton, of the University of Wisconsin ..."
2. Stuttering and Lisping by Edward Wheeler Scripture (1912)
"PREFACE IT would be difficult to find a group of people more neglected by medicine
and pedagogy than that of stutterers and lispers. ..."
3. The Hebrew Prophets: Translated Afresh from the Original with Regard to the by Rowland Williams, Ellen Cotesworth Williams (1866)
"And the eyes of seers are no longer blind, and the ears of hearers attend, and
the heart of the rash understands to learn, and the tongue of lispers is ..."
4. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"Yet only a few lines above this marvellous description is a section beginning,
Ye lispers, whisperers, singers in storms which illustrates how far his ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and Area?, between, By a mistake too hig for any skreen : And how nonsensically
join'd with lispers, By assignation met, of nightly whispers? ..."
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