tongued
/tʌŋd/
tongued adjective: resembling a tongue. Also the simple past and past participle of tongue.
Adjective
tongued (not comparable)
- Resembling a tongue.
- Having a particular manner of speaking.
- He's a sharp-toungued boy.
- Having a tongue for towing.
- Antonyms:
- tongueless
Also used as
tongued is also the simple past and past participle of tongue.
Antonyms of tongued
Origin of tongued
From Middle English tonged, tunged, equivalent to tongue + -ed. Compare Old English ġetynġe (“skilled with speech, talkative, eloquent”).
Words formed from tongued
- acid-tongued
- blue-tongued lizard
- blue-tongued skink
- Cadena's long-tongued bat
- close-tongued
- disc-tongued frog
- double-tongued
- false-tongued
- fiery-tongued
- fork-tongued
- foul-tongued
- free-tongued
- full-tongued
- golden-tongued
- honey-tongued
- long-tongued
- long-tongued bat
- loose-tongued
- lying-tongued
- many-tongued
- one-tongued
- Pallas's long-tongued bat
- Patton's long-tongued bat
- quick-tongued
- sharp-tongued
- silver-tongued
- single-tongued
- slick-tongued
- sly-tongued
- smooth-tongued
- soft-tongued
- sweet-tongued
- three-tongued
- tonguedness
- treble-tongued
- twi-tongued
- two-tongued
- venomous-tongued
Phrases with tongued
Words that rhyme with tongued
Questions about tongued
- What does tongued mean?
- Tongued means resembling a tongue.
- What part of speech is tongued?
- Tongued is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tongued?
- Tongued is pronounced /tʌŋd/.
Words near tongued in the dictionary
Source and license
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