tongue

  • 41Tongue — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Tongue peut être : La Tongue est une rivière américaine, des États du Wyoming et du Montana. Tongue ou tong, type chaussure. Tongué est commune du… …

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  • 42tongue — [OE] Tongue is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German zunge, Dutch tong, Swedish tonga, and Danish tonge. These all evolved from a prehistoric Germanic *tunggōn, whose ultimate ancestor was Indo European *dnghwā . This also produced… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 43tongue — noun 1) a foreign tongue Syn: language, dialect, patois, vernacular, mother tongue, native tongue, heritage language, lingua franca; informal lingo 2) her sharp tongue Syn: way/manner of speaking, speech, cho …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 44tongue — n. a muscular organ attached to the floor of the mouth. It consists of a body and a root, which is attached by muscles to the hyoid bone below, the styloid process behind, and the palate above. It is covered by mucous membrane, which is… …

    The new mediacal dictionary

  • 45tongue —   Alelo, elelo, lelo.     Tongue tip, ēlau alelo, wēlau alelo, lau alelo.     Coated tongue, alelo pala.     Double tongued, elelo lua.     To stick out the tongue, as in contempt, ho opake o i ke alelo.     Sharp tongued, kekē, waha ā.     The… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 46tongue — [OE] Tongue is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German zunge, Dutch tong, Swedish tonga, and Danish tonge. These all evolved from a prehistoric Germanic *tunggōn, whose ultimate ancestor was Indo European *dnghwā . This also produced… …

    Word origins

  • 47tongue — see the tongue always returns to the sore tooth the devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers a still tongue makes a wise head with a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair …

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  • 48tongue — Synonyms and related words: Maypole, abatis, aftertaste, alveolar ridge, alveolus, apex, argot, articulation, arytenoid cartilages, back, bagpipe, bar, baste, bell, berate, bill, bitter, blade, blow, blow a horn, blunder, boob, brains, breakwater …

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  • 49tongue — tʌŋ n. flexible muscular organ in the bottom of the mouth (used for tasting, swallowing and human speech); animal s tongue that is used for food; language or dialect; tongue shaped object …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 50tongue — Radula Rad u*la (r[a^]d [ u]*l[.a]), n.; pl. {Radul[ae]} (r[a^]d [ u]*l[=e]). [L., a scraper, fr. radere to scrape.] (Zo[ o]l.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; called also {lingual ribbon}, and {tongue}. See {Odontophore}.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English