tongue


Definition: Meaning of, tongue in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / tʌŋ /

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tongue tongues
  1. mouth [countable] the soft part inside your mouth that you can move about and use for eating and speaking
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  2. click your tongue to make a sharp noise with your tongue to show that you are annoyed or disappointed
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  3. sharp tongue if you have a sharp tongue, you often talk in a way that shows you are angry
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  4. silver tongue literary if you have a silver tongue, you can talk in a way that makes people like you or persuades them that you are right
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  5. sharp-tongued/silver-tongued etc able to talk in a very angry or pleasant way
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  6. with (your) tongue in (your) cheek if you say something with your tongue in your cheek, you say it as a joke, not seriously
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  7. slip of the tongue a small mistake in something you say
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  8. bite your tongue to stop yourself saying something because you know it would not be sensible to say it
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  9. Cat got your tongue? also Lost your tongue? spoken used to ask someone why they are not talking
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  10. get your tongue around something informal to be able to say a difficult word or phrase
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  11. trip/roll off the tongue informal if a name or phrase trips or rolls off your tongue, it is easy or pleasant to say
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  12. loosen somebody's tongue informal if something such as alcohol loosens your tongue, it makes you talk a lot
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  13. find your tongue informal to say something after you have been silent for a time because you were afraid or shy
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  14. set tongues wagging to do something that people will talk about in an unkind way
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  15. keep a civil tongue in your head old-fashioned spoken used to tell someone that they should talk politely to people
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  16. speak with forked tongue to say things that are not true - used humorously
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  17. speak in tongues to talk using strange words as part of a religious experience
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  18. language literary a language
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  19. food [uncountable] the tongue of a cow or sheep, cooked and eaten cold
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  20. shape [countable] something that has a long thin shape
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  21. shoe [countable] the part of a shoe that lies on top of your foot, under the part where you tie it
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
tongue tongued tongued
Present Participle Third Person Singular
tonguing tongues
  1. [intransitive and transitive] to use your tongue to make separate sounds when playing a musical instrument
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  2. [transitive] to touch something with your tongue
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tongue used in phrases

  • adder's tongue (noun)
    1. ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
  • adder's tongue fern (noun)
    1. ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
  • beef tongue (noun)
    1. the tongue of a cow eaten as meat
  • black tongue (noun)
    1. a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue
  • bull tongue (noun)
    1. a heavy plough with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields
  • calf's tongue (noun)
    1. the tongue of a calf eaten as meat
  • cow-tongue fern (noun)
    1. common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay
  • devil's tongue (noun)
    1. foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix
  • double tongue (verb)
    1. music play fast notes on a wind instrument
  • egg-and-tongue (noun)
    1. a decorative moulding; a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape
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