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tongue-and-cheek

tongue-and-cheek is the misspelling of tongue-in-cheek.

Meaning of tongue-in-cheek

Adjective

tongue-in-cheek (comparative more tongue-in-cheek, superlative most tongue-in-cheek)

  1. (idiomatic) Not intended seriously; jocular or humorous.
    • He gave a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the sky was blue, offering a theory about some primordial discount on light blue paint.

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Questions about tongue-and-cheek

What is tongue-and-cheek the misspelling of?
Tongue-and-cheek is the misspelling of tongue-in-cheek.

Words near tongue-and-cheek in the dictionary

  1. tongue twisters
  2. tongue worm
  3. tongue worms
  4. tongue wrestle
  5. tongue wrestling
  6. tongue-and-cheek
  7. tongue-and-groove
  8. tongue-and-groove pliers
  9. tongue-bath
  10. tongue-baths
  11. tongue-boring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tongue-and-cheek (page history and authors); tongue-in-cheek (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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