tonguier

Adjective

tonguey (comparative tonguier or more tonguey, superlative tonguiest or most tonguey)

1. Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
   • Seeing then he is now so mute, that before was so tonguy […]1608, Philip Woodward, Bels Trial Examined, Doai, Preface

   Synonyms:

   garrulous, loquacious, talkative

2. Using many words; containing grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
   • […] personal abuse and tonguy sarcasm are not elements of success in law practice.1885, J. H. Battle, Kentucky: A History of the State, Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, “Biographical Sketches,” p. 839

   Synonyms:

   bombastic, flowery, verbose

3. Manifested by fluent or voluble speech.
   • […] even his tonguey confidence and ingenuousness could glean but little satisfaction from his interviews with the rheumatic and unbelieving old woman.1887, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, “The Bar Light-House”, in A Humble Romance, and Other Stories, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 182
4. Involving the tongue.
   • Wully seated himself upon the corner of the kitchen table, from beneath which appeared a dog’s welcoming nose accompanied by a tonguey, tooth-trimmed grin.1918, F. Roney Weir, chapter 13, in Merry Andrew, Boston: Small, Maynard, page 187
5. Resembling a tongue.
   • These tonguey bracts or scaly appendages […] never become shorter than the proper cone scales, or so as to be hid from outside view.1882, Albert Kellogg, Forest Trees of California, Sacramento: J.D. Young, “The Noble Silver Fir,” p. 34

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