silver-tongued
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From silver tongue.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]silver-tongued (comparative more silver-tongued, superlative most silver-tongued)
- (idiomatic, informal) Articulate, charming, eloquent.
- Synonym: golden-tongued
- silver-tongued devil
- 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter I, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 8:
- [T]he statesman, whose inward feelings had at first so much impeded his efforts to make himself known, had now regained all the ease and fluency of a silver-tongued lawyer of the very highest order.
- 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 20:
- Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.
Translations
[edit]eloquent and articulate
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