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quick-tongued

quick-tongued adjective: ready with spoken retorts; sharp-tongued.

Adjective

quick-tongued (comparative more quick-tongued, superlative most quick-tongued)

  1. Ready with spoken retorts; sharp-tongued.

Forms of quick-tongued

comparativemore quick-tongued
superlativemost quick-tongued

Questions about quick-tongued

What does quick-tongued mean?
Quick-tongued means ready with spoken retorts; sharp-tongued.
What part of speech is quick-tongued?
Quick-tongued is an adjective.

Words near quick-tongued in the dictionary

  1. quick-setting
  2. quick-sighted
  3. quick-tempered
  4. quick-thinking
  5. quick-thinkingness
  6. quick-tongued
  7. quick-witted
  8. quick-wittedly
  9. quick-wittedness
  10. quick-write
  11. quick-writes

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