tongued
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7.2
- adjective
- /tʌŋd/
:
lenguado
- He went out to his workshop and took the little steel-tongued toggle switches off his old saber saw, his chain saw, and his MoroTool.
- thick-tongued
- long-tongued
- red-tongued
Examples
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Stefan had resurrected from the Romans; he was a droll scholarly dude, my fork-tongued man, made with a special sauce called garum.
Fiction book (1994) -
Long-nosed, brown-haired, red-tongued, hungry.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Flat-tongued human.
Fiction book (1992) -
In the original Elrich novel, Arioch, Lord of Chaos, manifests as a family, then as a pretty and silver tongued young man.
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He was like a golden retriever, fetching things, sloppy-tongued, panting, falling over himself to please.
Fiction book (2001) -
Play a slurred passage all tongued or an articulated passage slurred. Repetition with addition or subtraction of degrees of freedom.
Academic text (2011) -
That strategy freed up the tongue for tasks other than capturing prey, and the tongue became firmer as a result (scleroglossa means "hard-tongued").
Academic text (2006) -
(2) a literal reference to a padded cell, which is, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, "a room in a psychiatric hospital with padded walls to prevent violent patients from injuring themselves." from Double-Tongued Dictionary
Blog text (31) -
When red bellied woodpecker's extended barbed tongues aren't probing for protein rich comestibles, they're wrapped around their skulls.
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The garden featured many vibrant, tongued flowers that attracted numerous butterflies.
Synonyms
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5.1
A long, narrow shape with one rounded end like a small flap
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7.8
Near or connected to the tongue
Shaped like a tongue
Shaped like a tongue and often used to touch things
Antonyms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tongued comes from the word tongue, which can also mean any part that looks like a tongue. In phrases like long-tongued or when we say 'tongued boards', it means 'having a tongue or tongue-like part', so tongued describes things with a tongue-shaped piece.