tongue
/tʌŋ/ sustantivo B1En español: lengüeta, timón, lengua, argüendero
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows). · cold tongue with mustard
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- A language. · He was speaking in his native tongue.
- A manner of speaking, often habitually. · She can have a sharp tongue when she's annoyed.
- A person speaking in a specified manner.
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally. · I was so overwhelmed my tongue deserted me.
- Glossolalia.
Plural tongues
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Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
“Hold your tongue!” added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again.
“Hold your tongue!” said the Queen, turning purple.
But though a young wolf would have remembered that advice every hour, Mowgli forgot it because he was only a boy--though he would have called himself a wolf if he had been able to speak in any human tongue.
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