c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 306/2. Lyspynge, sibilatus, blesura.
1625. J. King, David’s Strait, 5. Plato’s crump-shoulder and Aristotle’s lisping.
1641. ‘Smectymnuus,’ Vind. Answ., § 13. 156. For our parts we answer without lisping.
1674. R. Godfrey, Inj. & Ab. Physic, 205. Having some defect in her Speech, to wit, a Lisping.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 622. To prevent lisping, stammering, and other such like imperfections.
1820. Hazlitt, Lect. Dram. Lit., 10. These first crude attempts at poetry and lispings of the Muse.
1839. Longf., Voices Nt., Prelude xiii. Low lispings of the summer rain.
attrib. 1875. Tennyson, Q. Mary, V. ii. I remember How I would dandle you upon my knee At lisping-age.
