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tongue bath

tongue bath noun: a sexual licking of another's body.

Noun

tongue bath (plural tongue baths)

  1. A sexual licking of another's body.
    • If you try giving or receiving a tongue bath, you will notice that it seldom gets completed.2005, Jack Rinella, Becoming a Slave: The Theory and Practice of Voluntary Servitude, Rinella Editorial Services
  2. Sycophantic or obsequious praise.
    • It’s possible that Trump meant to include the URL of Goodwin’s tongue-bath of an article instead of his email address.2017, Matthew Dessem, “Donald Trump Tweets About His “Enormously Consensual Presidency”, in Slate
  3. The cleansing of fur by licking, as practised by dogs, cats, etc.
    • Tongue baths do more for cats than help keep them clean.2012, Dawn Cusick, Animal Tongues

Forms of tongue bath

pluraltongue baths
alternative formtonguebath

Origin of tongue bath

Compound of tongue + bath.

Questions about tongue bath

What does tongue bath mean?
Tongue bath means a sexual licking of another's body.
What part of speech is tongue bath?
Tongue bath is a noun.
What is the plural of tongue bath?
The plural of tongue bath is tongue baths.

Words near tongue bath in the dictionary

  1. tongsters
  2. tonguage
  3. tongue
  4. tongue and groove
  5. tongue and grooves
  6. tongue bath
  7. tongue baths
  8. tongue bone
  9. tongue bones
  10. tongue brush
  11. tongue clacker

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