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flutter-tonguing

flutter-tonguing is the present participle and gerund of flutter-tongue.

Meaning of flutter-tongue

Verb

flutter-tongue (third-person singular simple present flutter-tongues, present participle flutter-tonguing, simple past and past participle flutter-tongued)

  1. To play very fast rhythms using a wind instrument by fluttering one's tongue with a trill.
    • He is very good at flutter-tonguing.

Questions about flutter-tonguing

What is flutter-tonguing the present participle and gerund of?
Flutter-tonguing is the present participle and gerund of flutter-tongue.

Words near flutter-tonguing in the dictionary

  1. flutter wheel
  2. flutter wheels
  3. flutter-tongue
  4. flutter-tongued
  5. flutter-tongues
  6. flutter-tonguing
  7. flutterable
  8. flutteration
  9. flutterations
  10. flutterball
  11. flutterballs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flutter-tonguing (page history and authors); flutter-tongue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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