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forked tongue

forked tongue noun: the split tongue of a snake.

Noun

forked tongue (plural forked tongues)

  1. The split tongue of a snake.
  2. (idiomatic) The characteristic of deceptiveness; duplicity; untruthfulness.
    • This man has a forked tongue and lacks credibility.2008 March 10, Kavi Chongkittavorn, “OPINION: Regional Perspective”, in The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand, retrieved 26 Mar 2008

forked tongue meaning in Tamil

forked tongue in Tamil

கவைநா

Forms of forked tongue

pluralforked tongues

Words formed from forked tongue

Questions about forked tongue

What does forked tongue mean?
Forked tongue means the split tongue of a snake.
What is forked tongue in Tamil?
Forked tongue in Tamil is கவைநா. See Forked tongue meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is forked tongue?
Forked tongue is a noun.
What is the plural of forked tongue?
The plural of forked tongue is forked tongues.

Words near forked tongue in the dictionary

  1. forked over
  2. forked riceflower
  3. forked riceflowers
  4. Forked River
  5. forked sundew
  6. forked tongue
  7. forked tongues
  8. forkedly
  9. forkedness
  10. forken
  11. forkend

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forked tongue (page history and authors); forked tongue (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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