Also 5 lyspare, 6 lispar, lypsar. [f. LISP v. + -ER1.] One who lisps.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 306/2. Lyspare, blesus … sibilus.
1519. Horman, Vulg., 31. No man shulde rebuke and scorne a blereyied man or gogylyed, or toungetyed, or lypsar, or a stuttar or fumblar.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., II. 42. The disaffection of Lispers consists in Conformation, and not at all in Intemperature.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 77, ¶ 1. I remember a Race of Lispers, fine Persons, who took an Aversion to particular Letters in our Language.
1823. Byron, Juan, IX. lxxviii. Each lovely lisper Smiled.
1827. Lytton, Pelham, iii. ‘Ah,’ said the lisper, carelessly; ‘but can he write poetry, and play proverbs?’
