tongue

tongue is a 6-letter English word with 35 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 35 senses

Definitions

1. noun. an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
2. noun. The power of articulate utterance; speech.
3. noun. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
4. noun. Honorable discourse; eulogy.
5. noun. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
6. noun. Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
7. noun. A people having a distinct language.
8. noun. The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
9. noun. The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
10. noun. The lingua of an insect.
11. noun. Any small sole.
12. noun. That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
13. noun. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
14. noun. A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
15. noun. A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
16. noun. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
17. noun. The clapper of a bell.
18. noun. A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
19. noun. Same as Reed, n., 5.
20. transitive verb. To speak; to utter.
21. transitive verb. To chide; to scold.
22. transitive verb. To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
23. transitive verb. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
24. intransitive verb. To talk; to prate.
25. intransitive verb. To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
26. noun. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

    Synonyms: clapper

27. noun. the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
28. noun. a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

    Synonyms: clapper, glossa, lingua

29. noun. a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
30. noun. a manner of speaking

    "he spoke with a thick tongue"

    "she has a glib tongue"

31. noun. the tongue of certain animals used as meat
32. noun. a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

    Synonyms: spit

33. noun. any long thin projection that is transient

    "tongues of flame licked at the walls"

    "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"

    Synonyms: knife

34. verb. lick or explore with the tongue
35. verb. articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Synonyms

clapper, glossa, lingua, spit, knife

Common word forms

tongued, tonguer, tongues, tonguing, tongueful, tongueless

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