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Tongued

adjective

Provided with or resembling a tongue; often used in combination. "Tongued boards" , "Toungued lightning" , "Long-tongued"

Having a manner of speaking as specified; often used in combination. "Sharp-tongued"

Tongue

verb

(past & past part. tongued; pres. part. tonguing)

Articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments.

Lick or explore with the tongue.

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"Tongued" Quotes from Famous Books

... during which the American Minister at London, William Pinkney, endeavoured without success to convince the British government that the decrees actually were withdrawn. The Portland Ministry had fallen in 1809, and the sharp-tongued Canning was replaced in the Foreign Office by the courteous Marquess Wellesley; but Spencer Perceval, author of the Orders in Council, was Prime Minister and stiffly determined to adhere to his policy. James Stephen and George Rose, in Parliament, ...

— The Wars Between England and America • T. C. Smith

... it was both dishonorable and impious to neglect their enslaved and engarrisoned country, and, lazily contented with their own lives and safety, depend on the decrees of the Athenians, and through fear fawn on every smooth-tongued orator that was able to work upon the people: now they must venture for this great prize, taking Thrasybulus' bold courage for example, and as he advanced from Thebes and broke the power of the Athenian tyrants, so they should march from Athens ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... said Lady Keith, "how after living among a parcel of thick-headed, and thicker-tongued Yankees, she could come out and speak pure English in a clear voice; it ...

— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell

... should have been needed and should have been boasted of with such violent vulgarity was almost more than Mrs. Western could stand. She came down-stairs and then underwent the additional purgatory of listening to the silver-tongued farewell. That she, she with her high ideas of a woman's duty and a woman's dignity, should have put herself into such a condition was a marvel to herself. Had some one a year since told her that she should become thus afraid of a fellow-creature and of one that she ...

— Kept in the Dark • Anthony Trollope

... bowls, linking that lonely palm to the remote horizon, a thousand elfin fires arose—blue-tongued and spirituous. Grey pencilings of smoke stole straightly upward to the sky, so that look where she would Rita could discern nothing but these countless thin, faintly wavering, ...

— Dope • Sax Rohmer

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