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Revision as of 04:25, 23 January 2016

English

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A human tongue.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English tonge, tunge, tung, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English tunge, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”) (compare West Frisian tonge, Dutch tong, German Zunge, Danish tunge, Swedish tunga), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (compare Irish teanga, Latin lingua, Tocharian A/B käntu/kantwo, Lithuanian liežùvis, Polish język 'language, tongue', Armenian լեզու (lezu), Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́)).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

tongue (plural tongues)

  1. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
  2. Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
  3. A language.
    He was speaking in his native tongue.
    The poem was written in her native tongue.
  4. The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
    • Dryden
      parrots imitating human tongue
  5. (obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
    • L'Estrange
      Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.
  6. (obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honour.
  7. (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
  8. In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot, so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth.
  9. Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
  10. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
    the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
  11. A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
  12. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
  13. The clapper of a bell.
  14. (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
    • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
      Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
  15. A small sole (type of fish).
  16. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
  17. (music) A reed.

Synonyms

Translations

language — see language
a projection that fits into a slot

Verb

tongue (third-person singular simple present tongues, present participle tonguing, simple past and past participle tongued)

  1. (music, transitive, intransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
    Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
  2. (slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
  3. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
    a soil horizon that tongues into clay
  4. To join by means of a tongue and groove.
    to tongue boards together
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.
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  6. (transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.
    • Shakespeare
      such stuff as madmen tongue
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.
    • Shakespeare
      How might she tongue me.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun or verb tongue

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Anagrams

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