English Explanatory Dictionary

tonguey

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
  2. Using many words; containing grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
  3. Manifested by fluent or voluble speech.
  4. Involving the tongue.
  5. Resembling a tongue.
noun
  1. An act or an instance of kissing that involves the use of one's tongue.

Word forms

tonguey tonguier more tonguey tonguiest most tonguey tonguy tongueys

Etymology

From Middle English tungy, tungi, equivalent to tongue + -y. Compare Old English tynġe (“fluent, eloquent, skillful”).

Synonyms

garrulous loquacious talkative bombastic flowery verbose French kiss

Related words

glossal lingual tonguely
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