tongue

n.

language

1) one's mother, native tongue

organ of speech

speech

2) to use one's tongue ('to speak')

3) to hold one's tongue ('to be silent')

4) to find one's tongue ('to begin to speak')

5) to stick out one's tongue (the child stuck out its tongue at me)

6) to click one's tongue

7) a coated tongue

8) (misc.) a tongue depressor; on everyone's tongue ('discussed by everyone'); on the tip of one's tongue ('not quite recalled'); tongues were wagging ('people were gossiping'); to speak with a forked tongue ('to be deceitful')

manner of speaking

9) a caustic, foul, nasty, sharp; glib; loose tongue (he has a nasty tongue)

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[tʌŋ]

foul

glib

nasty

native tongue

sharp

on everyone's tongue ('discussed by everyone')

on the tip of one's tongue ('not quite recalled')

tongues were wagging ('people were gossiping')

to speak with a forked tongue ('to be deceitful')

loose tongue (he has a nasty tongue)

(misc.) a tongue depressor

['language'] one's mother

['manner of speaking'] a caustic

a coated tongue

to click one's tongue

to hold one's tongue ('to be silent')

to find one's tongue ('to begin to speak')

['organ of speech'] ['speech'] to use one's tongue ('to speak')

to stick out one's tongue (the child stuck out its tongue at me)