Word Image
plural: tongues
Part Of Speech
noun, verb
Word Meaning
noun: a fleshy movable muscular part of the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates that has sensory organs (taste buds) and small glands, and functions especially in taking and swallowing food, and in human beings as a speech organ; language: the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a large group of people; something resembling a tongue
verb: to touch or lick with or as if with the tongue; to separate individual notes when playing a wind instrument by interrupting the stream of wind with the tongue
Word Family
tongued
tonguing
tongueless
tonguelike
Sentences
The little girl stuck her tongue out at me.
He spent his youth in the Midwest.
His sharp tongue is going to get him into trouble someday.
The cow ran its tongue over its lips.
The taste of the spice was still on her tongue.
I am just learning how to tongue notes on the clarinet.
He spoke in a foreign tongue that I didn’t understand.
English is my native tongue.
Ouch! I bit my tongue.
The human tongue is full of taste buds.
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