tongue
🇺🇸
/tʌŋ/
🇬🇧
/tʌŋ/
noun
B1
The fleshy part in your mouth that helps you taste, swallow food, and speak.
She accidentally bit her tongue.
R
A part of an animal that is cooked and eaten.
We had a delicious ox tongue for dinner.
R
A language people speak.
She speaks three tongues fluently.
R
A way someone speaks or the words they use.
He has a sharp tongue and often offends people.
R
The act of speaking in a certain way.
She was known for her sharp-tongued remarks.
R
A piece of leather on a shoe that holds the laces.
The tongue of his shoe was sticking out.
R
A long, narrow piece that is similar to a tongue in shape.
A tongue of land stretched out into the sea.
verb
R
To use your tongue to stop air in a wind instrument to play a note.
He tongued the flute to play a high note.
R
To lick something with your tongue.
The cat tongued the milk from the bowl.
translation
The fleshy part in your mouth that helps you taste, swallow food, and speak.; A part of an animal that is cooked and eaten.; A language people speak.; A way someone speaks or the words they use.; The act of speaking in a certain way.; A piece of leather on a shoe that holds the laces.; A long, narrow piece that is similar to a tongue in shape.
To use your tongue to stop air in a wind instrument to play a note.; To lick something with your tongue.
Word Forms
3rd Present
tongues
Past
tongued
Perfect
tongued
Progressive
tonguing
Plural
tongues