tongue
suomi-englanti sanakirjatongue englannista suomeksi
maakaistale
kieli
puhetapa
tutkia kielellä
soittaa
iltti
kieleke
Substantiivi
Verbi
tongue englanniksi
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.
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(c.), published 1568, (w), ''Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.'':
- But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,The devil tere their tunges and pike out their ies!
This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).
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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.
A language.
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(RQ:Spenser Complaints) (w), which is so much renowndFor tongues confusion in Writ|holie writ,
(RQ:Swift Gulliver's Travels)
(RQ:Hardy Return of the Native)
(RQ:Maugham Of Human Bondage)”
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(RQ:Achebe Things Fall Apart)
(quote-text)|location=New York|publisher=Picador|section=Book 2, p. 99|url=https://archive.org/details/middlesex00euge_1
Speakers of a language, collectively.
(RQ:KJV)
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice)
(RQ:Smollett Roderick Random)
Manner of speaking, often habitually.
- Al maters wel pondred and wel to be regarded,How ſhuld a fals lying tung then be rewarded?
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(RQ:Stevenson Kidnapped)
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(quote-text)|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|section=Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 8|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458774
{{quote-text|en|year=1972|author=Hortense Calisher|title=Herself|location=New York|publisher=Arbor House|section=Part 4, p. 369|url=https://archive.org/details/herself00hort
A person speaking in a specified manner.
{{quote-text|en|year=1860|author=George Eliot|title=The Mill on the Floss|section=Book 7, Chapter 3|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6688/6688-h/6688-h.htm
(RQ:Mitchell Gone with the Wind) it was obvious to his listeners that Pittypat, in his mind, was still a plump and charming miss of sixteen who must be sheltered against evil tongues.
2007, (w), ''(w),'' New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 4, p.(nbs)592,https://books.google.ca/books?id=k5snFSTVhOsC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
- ... the drunk, who had been a permanent fixture in that bar, changed location and thereafter moved from bar to bar, saying to inquisitive tongues, Too long a stay in one seat tires the buttocks.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1)
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
(RQ:Eliot Daniel Deronda)
Honourable discourse; eulogy.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
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'').
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(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Virago|chapter=2|page=53|url=https://archive.org/details/nightwatch00wate_0
(senseid)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.
A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
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The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
{{quote-text|en|year=1986|author=Hortense Calisher|title=The Bobby-Soxer|url=https://archive.org/details/bobbysoxer00cali|page=91|publisher=Doubleday|location=Garden City, NY
(RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer)
(quote-text)|title=Native Son|location=London|publisher=Jonathan Cape|section=Book 2, p. 156|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499539
{{quote-book|en|year=1818|author=Percy Bysshe Shelley|title=The Revolt of Islam|location=London|publisher=C. and J. Ollier|section=Canto 3, stanza 13, p. 63|url=https://archive.org/details/revoltofislam00shel
(quote-text)
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.
A reed.
A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
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).
To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or sex; to perform cunnilingus or anilingus on.
(RQ:Joyce Ulysses)
To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
To join by means of a and groove.
To speak; to utter.
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)
To chide; to scold.
(RQ:Shakespeare Measure)