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lallate en · VERB
Meanings
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To speak pronouncing the letter "r" so that it sounds like "l".
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To speak like a baby.
[…] the therapist would start tiresomely lallating over and over and over again what her therapeutic philosophies and goals and wishes for the depressed person were […]
2014, David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader:[…] he was pulled in by the smell of fresh coffee and the sound of Isabel and Rosalinda burbling and lallating together.
2008, Clive Hazell, The Room:Meanwhile I go on
troweling, slavering the world with language
as Jake squeals
like a held bird and begins lallating to me in tongues.
2014, William Roetzheim, The Giant Book of Poetry:
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lall · lallation