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lallating

lallating is the present participle and gerund of lallate.

Meaning of lallate

Verb

lallate (third-person singular simple present lallates, present participle lallating, simple past and past participle lallated)

  1. To speak pronouncing the letter "r" so that it sounds like "l".
  2. To speak like a baby.
    • […] 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

Questions about lallating

What is lallating the present participle and gerund of?
Lallating is the present participle and gerund of lallate.

Words near lallating in the dictionary

  1. lallapaloozas
  2. lallas
  3. lallate
  4. lallated
  5. lallates
  6. lallating
  7. lallation
  8. lallations
  9. lalled
  10. Lalley
  11. Lalleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lallating (page history and authors); lallate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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