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1. tongue
noun. ['ˈtʌŋ'] a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- tonge (Middle English (1100-1500))
- tunge (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
Rhymes with Tongue
- overhung
- mcclung
- unsung
- strung
- sprung
- nueyung
- swung
- stung
- slung
- myung
- kyung
- hsiung
- flung
- clung
- among
- yung
- young
- wrung
- tung
- sung
- rung
- pung
- phung
- lung
- kung
- junge
- hung
- gung
- fung
- dung
How do you pronounce tongue?
Pronounce tongue as təŋ.
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UK - How to pronounce tongue in British English
How do you spell tongue? Is it tounge ?
A common misspelling of tongue is tounge
Sentences with tongue
1. Noun, singular or mass
You might even find yourself biting your tongue more often because it is so swollen.
Quotes about tongue
1. Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet
2. You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.
- C. JoyBell C.
3. My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
3. tongue
noun. ['ˈtʌŋ'] a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language.
Synonyms
- natural language
- Khoisan language
- Afroasiatic language
- Eskimo-Aleut language
- Munda-Mon-Khmer
- Eskimo-Aleut
- Caucasian
- Nilo-Saharan language
- Chukchi
- Dravidian
- mother tongue
- Sino-Tibetan language
- Caucasian language
- Chukchi language
- Austro-Asiatic
- Papuan
- Austronesian
- Cassite
- Afroasiatic
- Ural-Altaic
- first language
- maternal language
- Niger-Kordofanian
- Elamite
- Sino-Tibetan
- Indian
- Austronesian language
- Afrasian language
- Afro-Asiatic
- Susian
- Indo-Hittite
- American-Indian language
- Afrasian
- Austro-Asiatic language
- Hmong
- Papuan language
- tone language
- creole
- Miao
- Nilo-Saharan
- Dravidic
- Indo-European language
- Amerind
- Basque
- tonal language
- language
- Indo-European
- Niger-Kordofanian language
- American Indian
- Elamitic
- Khoisan
- Hmong language
- Kassite
- linguistic communication
- Amerindian language
- Hamito-Semitic
Antonyms
Etymology
- tonge (Middle English (1100-1500))
- tunge (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
4. tongue
noun. ['ˈtʌŋ'] any long thin projection that is transient.
Synonyms
Etymology
- tonge (Middle English (1100-1500))
- tunge (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
5. tongue
noun. ['ˈtʌŋ'] a manner of speaking.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- tonge (Middle English (1100-1500))
- tunge (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
6. tongue
noun. ['ˈtʌŋ'] a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea.
Etymology
- tonge (Middle English (1100-1500))
- tunge (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
7. tongue
noun. ['ˈtʌŋ'] the tongue of certain animals used as meat.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- tonge (Middle English (1100-1500))
- tunge (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
8. tongue
verb. ['ˈtʌŋ'] lick or explore with the tongue.
Synonyms
Etymology
- tonge (Middle English (1100-1500))
- tunge (Old English (ca. 450-1100))