大舌头

大舌頭
dàshétou
noun #32,985

Meanings

  1. 1 lisp
  2. 2 person who lisps
  3. 3 speech that slurs or mispronounces

Examples

Tā yǒudiǎn dàshétou.
He has a bit of a lisp.
Hē duōle shuōhuà jiù dàshétou.
After a few too many drinks his speech gets slurred.

Tips

register
Colloquial — literally 'big tongue', the imagined cause of the slurred speech. Not clinical; you wouldn't write it in a medical report (use 口齿 kǒuchǐ bù qīng for that). Used both for actual lisps and for drunk-slurred speech.
mistakes
The third character is read in the neutral tone — dàshétou, not dàshétóu.

Stroke Order

shé
tóu