lallateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

lallate (三人称単数 現在形 lallates, 現在分詞 lallating, 過去形および過去分詞形 lallated)

1. To speak pronouncing the letter "r" so that it sounds like "l".
2. To speak like a baby.
   • 2008, Clive Hazell, The Room

     […] he was pulled in by the smell of fresh coffee and the sound of Isabel and Rosalinda burbling and lallating together.

   • 2014, David Foster Wallace, The David Foster Wallace Reader

     […] 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, William Roetzheim, The Giant Book of Poetry

     Meanwhile I go on
     troweling, slavering the world with language
     as Jake squeals
     like a held bird and begins lallating to me in tongues.

関連する語

• lallation