tongue

Change speaker

You're listening to Joanna
She has an American accent.

NGSL Rank: 2757
tongue
tʌŋ Listen
Meanings
noun
  • the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech.
  • used in reference to a person's style or manner of speaking.
    E.g. he was a redoubtable debater with a caustic tongue
  • a strip of leather or fabric under the laces in a shoe, attached only at the front end.
  • the free-swinging metal piece inside a bell which is made to strike the bell to produce the sound.
  • a long, low promontory of land.
  • a projecting strip on a wooden board fitting into a groove on another.
  • the vibrating reed of a musical instrument or organ pipe.
  • a jet of flame.
    E.g. a tongue of flame flashed from the gun
verb
  • sound (a note) distinctly on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue.
    E.g. Eugene has worked out the correct tonguing
  • lick or caress with the tongue.
    E.g. the other horse tongued every part of the colt's mane

Practise saying this word

tongue
Joanna
YouReset