Tongue
noun
The fleshy, movable, muscular part inside the mouth.
He burned his tongue on the hot soup.
Often appears as...
- bite one's tongue
- slip of the tongue
noun
A language or dialect.
English is his native tongue.
Often appears as...
- mother tongue
- foreign tongue
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Idiomatic
noun
The ability or act of speaking.
He had a tongue of silver that could convince anyone.
Often appears as...
- sharp tongue
- silver-tongued
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A strip of material like leather sticking out of a shoe near the laces.
Make sure the tongue of your shoe isn't sticking out.
Often appears as...
- shoe tongue
- tongue of a boot
noun
A projecting strip on a wooden board fitting into a groove on another.
The carpenter cut a tongue and groove joint.
verb
To articulate notes on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue.
He had to learn how to tongue the flute correctly.
Often appears as...
- tongue a note
- tonguing technique
noun
The fleshy, movable, muscular part inside the mouth.
He burned his tongue on the hot soup.
Often appears as...
- bite one's tongue
- slip of the tongue
noun
A language or dialect.
English is his native tongue.
Often appears as...
- mother tongue
- foreign tongue
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
The ability or act of speaking.
He had a tongue of silver that could convince anyone.
Often appears as...
- sharp tongue
- silver-tongued
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A strip of material like leather sticking out of a shoe near the laces.
Make sure the tongue of your shoe isn't sticking out.
Often appears as...
- shoe tongue
- tongue of a boot
noun
A projecting strip on a wooden board fitting into a groove on another.
The carpenter cut a tongue and groove joint.
verb
To articulate notes on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue.
He had to learn how to tongue the flute correctly.
Often appears as...
- tongue a note
- tonguing technique
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Pro Tip 1/2Sensory Function
The tongue is key for tasting; it's sensitive to five tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami.
She savored the sweet taste with her tongue.
Pro Tip 2/2Nonverbal Expression
Sticking out your tongue can be a playful gesture or a sign of rudeness, depending on the culture.
He playfully stuck out his tongue at his sister.
Pro Tip 1/2Sensory Function
The tongue is key for tasting; it's sensitive to five tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami.
She savored the sweet taste with her tongue.
Pro Tip 2/2Nonverbal Expression
Sticking out your tongue can be a playful gesture or a sign of rudeness, depending on the culture.
He playfully stuck out his tongue at his sister.
Pro Tip 1/2Sensory Function
The tongue is key for tasting; it's sensitive to five tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami.
She savored the sweet taste with her tongue.
Pro Tip 2/2Nonverbal Expression
Sticking out your tongue can be a playful gesture or a sign of rudeness, depending on the culture.
He playfully stuck out his tongue at his sister.
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How sugar affects the...
it's also added to tomato sauce, yogurt, dried fruit, flavored waters, or granola bars. Since sugar is everywhere, it's important to understand how it affects the brain. What happens when sugar hits your tongue? And does eating a little bit of sugar make you crave more?
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Storytelling can be...
silver tongue by her own ability to do this because it's addictive I mean realizing that you can control people's lives with the stories that you tell it's a huge power that we storytellers hold and it's a power that I think needs to be wielded wisely and wielded you
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Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
have evolved some peculiar adaptations which allow them to graze without competition their huge long tongues are pigmented a colored dark gluey color which protects them from the Sun and this enables them to eat high in the treetops all day long not only are they
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The pleasure of poetic...
"So long lives this and this gives life to thee." In fact, this type of specific consonance, which occurs at the beginning of words may be familiar to you already. It's called alliteration, or front rhyme. Great examples include tongue twisters.
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A Saudi, an Indian and...
Here's my advice to my brown friends. The next time you're on an airplane in the US, just speak your mother tongue. That way no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on. Granted, some mother tongues might sound a little threatening
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Would You Eat Live...
and it sticks to your tongue so it's hard to swallow when it's sticking to your tongue that's very difficult sorry guys I tried Ingram is left with a new appreciation for the courage of his Korean friends their brave they're very
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How to write descriptivel...
With an exciting plot? Maybe. Fascinating characters? Probably. Beautiful language? Perhaps. "Billie's legs are noodles. The ends of her hair are poison needles. Her tongue is a bristly sponge, and her eyes are bags of bleach."
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Raising an Abandoned...
so mum helps by licking their behind. Tapping Ling Hwa's back end is the next best option and simulates what panda mums do with their tongue to encourage going to the toilet.
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Puppy Adopted By Cat...
into his mouth but unlike cats he shapes his tongue into a Lidl the slosh more liquidity for pack animals beating your rivals to a drink is more important than cleanliness
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Why Dogs Stick Their...
licking helps capture more of her alluring sin his tongue takes the order to a second smell organ in the mouth hardwired to the brain and tuned to
Video examples
How sugar affects the...
it's also added to tomato sauce, yogurt, dried fruit, flavored waters, or granola bars. Since sugar is everywhere, it's important to understand how it affects the brain. What happens when sugar hits your tongue? And does eating a little bit of sugar make you crave more?
Video examples
Storytelling can be...
silver tongue by her own ability to do this because it's addictive I mean realizing that you can control people's lives with the stories that you tell it's a huge power that we storytellers hold and it's a power that I think needs to be wielded wisely and wielded you
Video examples
Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
have evolved some peculiar adaptations which allow them to graze without competition their huge long tongues are pigmented a colored dark gluey color which protects them from the Sun and this enables them to eat high in the treetops all day long not only are they
Video examples
The pleasure of poetic...
"So long lives this and this gives life to thee." In fact, this type of specific consonance, which occurs at the beginning of words may be familiar to you already. It's called alliteration, or front rhyme. Great examples include tongue twisters.
Video examples
A Saudi, an Indian and...
Here's my advice to my brown friends. The next time you're on an airplane in the US, just speak your mother tongue. That way no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on. Granted, some mother tongues might sound a little threatening
Video examples
Would You Eat Live...
and it sticks to your tongue so it's hard to swallow when it's sticking to your tongue that's very difficult sorry guys I tried Ingram is left with a new appreciation for the courage of his Korean friends their brave they're very
Video examples
How to write descriptivel...
With an exciting plot? Maybe. Fascinating characters? Probably. Beautiful language? Perhaps. "Billie's legs are noodles. The ends of her hair are poison needles. Her tongue is a bristly sponge, and her eyes are bags of bleach."
Video examples
Raising an Abandoned...
so mum helps by licking their behind. Tapping Ling Hwa's back end is the next best option and simulates what panda mums do with their tongue to encourage going to the toilet.
Video examples
Puppy Adopted By Cat...
into his mouth but unlike cats he shapes his tongue into a Lidl the slosh more liquidity for pack animals beating your rivals to a drink is more important than cleanliness
Video examples
Why Dogs Stick Their...
licking helps capture more of her alluring sin his tongue takes the order to a second smell organ in the mouth hardwired to the brain and tuned to
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Quote examples
Robert Fitzgerald
American Author
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
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Rod Steiger
American Actor
I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?
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Lisa Cholodenko
American Director
I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.
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Maz Jobrani
American Comedian
Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.
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Sidney Sheldon
American Novelist
The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.
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Jeff Sessions
American Politician
I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.
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Geoffrey Boycott
British Athlete
Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.
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Joel Osteen
American Clergyman
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Paula Deen
American Chef
I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.
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Robert Fitzgerald
American Author
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
Quote examples
Rod Steiger
American Actor
I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?
Quote examples
Lisa Cholodenko
American Director
I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.
Quote examples
Maz Jobrani
American Comedian
Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.
Quote examples
Sidney Sheldon
American Novelist
The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.
Quote examples
Jeff Sessions
American Politician
I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.
Quote examples
Geoffrey Boycott
British Athlete
Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.
Quote examples
Joel Osteen
American Clergyman
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Quote examples
Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Quote examples
Paula Deen
American Chef
I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.
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