tongue

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tʌŋ/    美 /tʌŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. countable,uncountable
    — But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,
  2. Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows). countable,uncountable
    — cold tongue with mustard
  3. 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. countable,uncountable
  4. A language. countable,metonymically,uncountable
    — He was speaking in his native tongue.
  5. The speakers of a language, collectively. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
  6. A voice, (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language). countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty, Albeit I’ll swear that I do know your tongue.
  7. A manner of speaking, often habitually. countable,uncountable
    — She can have a sharp tongue when she's annoyed.
  8. A person speaking in a specified manner. countable,plural-normally,uncountable
    — I know that we must keep apart for a long while; cruel tongues would force us apart, if nothing else did.
  9. The power of articulate utterance; speech generally. countable,uncountable
    — I was so overwhelmed my tongue deserted me.
  10. Discourse; the fluency of speech or expression. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  11. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. obsolete,uncountable
    — [...] fellows, soldiers, friends, Better consider what you have to do Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue, Can lift your blood up with persuasion.
  12. Honorable discourse; eulogy. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — She was born noble; let that title find her A private grave, but neither tongue nor honour!
  13. Glossolalia. countable,in-plural,often,uncountable
    — Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
  14. In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth). countable,uncountable
    — I caught a glimpse of a brown boot, the tongue flapping, the sole tied on with string.
  15. Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part. countable,uncountable
  16. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture. countable,uncountable
    — the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance
  17. A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake. countable,uncountable
    — On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water.
  18. The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked. countable,uncountable
    — Far to the right, where the main pile sloped out, his cart reared tongue upward, like a plow.
  19. The clapper of a bell. countable,uncountable
    — The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:
  20. An individual point of flame from a fire. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Then up a steep and dark and narrow stair We wound, until the torches’ fiery tongue Amid the gushing day beamless and pallid hung.
  21. A small sole (type of fish). countable,uncountable
  22. A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces. countable,uncountable
  23. A reed. countable,uncountable
  24. A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction. countable,uncountable
  25. The middle protrusion of a triple-tailed flag. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive). ambitransitive
    — Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
  2. To manipulate with the tongue. transitive
    — [T]he cattle tongued at the damp grass, licking rather than grazing. […]
  3. To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex. slang,sometimes,transitive,vulgar
    — Hot I tongued her. She kissed me. I was kissed. All yielding she tossed my hair. Kissed, she kissed me.
  4. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
    — a soil horizon that tongues into clay
  5. To join by means of a tongue and groove.
    — to tongue boards together
  6. To talk; to prate. intransitive,obsolete
  7. To speak; to utter. obsolete,transitive
    — ’Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen Tongue and brain not;
  8. To chide; to scold. obsolete,transitive
    — How might she tongue me!

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English tongue, a late spelling of tong(e), tung(e), from Old English tunge, from Proto-West Germanic *tungā (“tongue”), from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”). Cognate with Dutch tong (“tongue”), German Zunge (“tongue”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tunge (“tongue”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish tunga (“tongue”), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō, “tongue”), Irish teanga (“tongue”), Asturian and Catalan llengua (“tongue”), Aragonese luenga (“tongue”), French langue (“tongue”), Galician, Italian, and Latin lingua (“tongue”), Leonese llingua (“tongue”), Mirandese lhéngua (“tongue”), Portuguese língua (“tongue”), Spanish lengua (“tongue”), Belarusian and Russian язык (jazyk, “tongue”), Bulgarian ези́к (ezík, “tongue”), Czech and Slovak jazyk (“tongue”), Macedonian јазик (jazik, “tongue”), Polish język (“tongue”), Serbo-Croatian jèzik (“tongue”), Slovene jézik (“tongue”), Ukrainian язи́к (jazýk, “tongue”), Persian زبان (zabân, “tongue”), Sanskrit जि॒ह्वा (jihvā́, “tongue”). Doublet of language and lingua.
The expected modern spelling, both phonetically and etymologically, would be tung. Using ⟨on⟩ for ⟨un⟩ was fairly common in Middle English; compare e.g. yong (“young”). The final ⟨gue⟩ arose to prevent tonge being misread with a soft /dʒ/. However, this spelling only became common at a time when the final ⟨e⟩ was already largely silent, so it is not clear why it was not simply dropped instead. Perhaps the spelling was influenced directly by French langue (“tongue”).
词源 2
From Middle English tongue, a late spelling of tong(e), tung(e), from Old English tunge, from Proto-West Germanic *tungā (“tongue”), from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”). Cognate with Dutch tong (“tongue”), German Zunge (“tongue”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tunge (“tongue”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish tunga (“tongue”), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō, “tongue”), Irish teanga (“tongue”), Asturian and Catalan llengua (“tongue”), Aragonese luenga (“tongue”), French langue (“tongue”), Galician, Italian, and Latin lingua (“tongue”), Leonese llingua (“tongue”), Mirandese lhéngua (“tongue”), Portuguese língua (“tongue”), Spanish lengua (“tongue”), Belarusian and Russian язык (jazyk, “tongue”), Bulgarian ези́к (ezík, “tongue”), Czech and Slovak jazyk (“tongue”), Macedonian јазик (jazik, “tongue”), Polish język (“tongue”), Serbo-Croatian jèzik (“tongue”), Slovene jézik (“tongue”), Ukrainian язи́к (jazýk, “tongue”), Persian زبان (zabân, “tongue”), Sanskrit जि॒ह्वा (jihvā́, “tongue”). Doublet of language and lingua.
The expected modern spelling, both phonetically and etymologically, would be tung. Using ⟨on⟩ for ⟨un⟩ was fairly common in Middle English; compare e.g. yong (“young”). The final ⟨gue⟩ arose to prevent tonge being misread with a soft /dʒ/. However, this spelling only became common at a time when the final ⟨e⟩ was already largely silent, so it is not clear why it was not simply dropped instead. Perhaps the spelling was influenced directly by French langue (“tongue”).
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