[f. LISP v. + -ING2.] That lisps; (of sounds or utterance) characterized by a lisp or lisping.
1535. Coverdale, Isa. xxviii. 11. The Lorde also shal speake with lispinge lippes and with a straunge language into this people.
1586. A. Day, Eng. Secretary, I. (1625), 68. A pleasant lisping sound.
1646. Fanshawe, Guarino’s Pastor Fido (1676), 142. Thy lithping gibberish.
1669. Holder, Elem. Speech, 45. The other pair of Lisping and Sibilant Letters.
1776. S. J. Pratt, Pupil of Pleas. (1777), I. 27. A lisping accent.
1827. Lytton, Pelham, iii. I heard my own name pronounced by a very soft, lisping voice.
1841. Myers, Cath. Th., III. v. 17. The father who should impose the obligations of manhood upon a yet lisping son,… would be as unjust as he would be unwise.
