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tongue-twisters

tongue-twisters is the plural of tongue-twister.

Meaning of tongue-twister

Noun

tongue-twister (plural tongue-twisters)

  1. A phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes.
    • The present name being a translation, "in brief," of the original tongue-twister, meaning "the river of the rock"1855, H. Taylor with J. H. Beech, “Report of the Committee on Dysentery”, in The Transactions of the American Medical Association, volume viii, Philadelphia: Collins, page 568

Questions about tongue-twisters

What is tongue-twisters the plural of?
Tongue-twisters is the plural of tongue-twister.

Words near tongue-twisters in the dictionary

  1. tongue-speaker
  2. tongue-tie
  3. tongue-tied
  4. tongue-ties
  5. tongue-twister
  6. tongue-twisters
  7. tongue-tying
  8. tongue-work
  9. tongue-wrestling
  10. tonguectomies
  11. tonguectomy

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