tonguey
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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An act or an instance of kissing that involves the use of one's tongue.
— Give me a kiss. No, open your mouth, I want a tonguey.
形容词 adj.
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Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
— 1608, Philip Woodward, Bels Trial Examined, Doai, Preface, Seeing then he is now so mute, that before was so tonguy […]
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Using many words; containing grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
— 1885, J. H. Battle, Kentucky: A History of the State, Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, “Biographical Sketches,” p. 839, […] personal abuse and tonguy sarcasm are not elements of success in law practice.
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Manifested by fluent or voluble speech.
— […] even his tonguey confidence and ingenuousness could glean but little satisfaction from his interviews with the rheumatic and unbelieving old woman.
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Involving the tongue.
— Wully seated himself upon the corner of the kitchen table, from beneath which appeared a dog’s welcoming nose accompanied by a tonguey, tooth-trimmed grin.
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Resembling a tongue.
— 1882, Albert Kellogg, Forest Trees of California, Sacramento: J.D. Young, “The Noble Silver Fir,” p. 34, These tonguey bracts or scaly appendages […] never become shorter than the proper cone scales, or so as to be hid from outside view.
词源
词源 1
From Middle English tungy, tungi, equivalent to tongue + -y. Compare Old English tynġe (“fluent, eloquent, skillful”).
词源 2
From Middle English tungy, tungi, equivalent to tongue + -y. Compare Old English tynġe (“fluent, eloquent, skillful”).
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