Sekirov Dictionary

tonguey

adjective 5
noun 1
forms 5

adjective5

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Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
- Seeing then he is now so mute, that before was so tonguy […] — 1608
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Using many words; containing grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
- […] personal abuse and tonguy sarcasm are not elements of success in law practice. — 1885
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Manifested by fluent or voluble speech.
- […] even his tonguey confidence and ingenuousness could glean but little satisfaction from his interviews with the rheumatic and unbelieving old woman. — 1887
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Involving the tongue.
- Wully seated himself upon the corner of the kitchen table, from beneath which appeared a dog’s welcoming nose accompanied by a tonguey, tooth-trimmed grin. — 1918
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Resembling a tongue.
- These tonguey bracts or scaly appendages […] never become shorter than the proper cone scales, or so as to be hid from outside view. — 1882

noun1

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(UK, Australia) An act or an instance of kissing that involves the use of one's tongue.
- Give me a kiss. No, open your mouth, I want a tonguey. — 1992

forms

tongueys · more tonguey · tonguier · most tonguey · tonguiest

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