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tongues and grooves

tongues and grooves is the plural of tongue and groove.

Meaning of tongue and groove

Noun

tongue and groove (plural tongue and grooves or tongues and grooves)

  1. A joint, in flooring or panelling, made by fitting a ridge (tongue) along the edge of one board into a corresponding slot (groove) on another.

Questions about tongues and grooves

What is tongues and grooves the plural of?
Tongues and grooves is the plural of tongue and groove.

Words near tongues and grooves in the dictionary

  1. tonguepad
  2. tonguepads
  3. tonguer
  4. tonguers
  5. tongues
  6. tongues and grooves
  7. tongues speaker
  8. tongues speakers
  9. tongues-speaker
  10. tongues-speakers
  11. tongues-speaking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tongues and grooves (page history and authors); tongue and groove (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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