All tongue synonyms
tongue
T t noun tongue
- chersonese — (capital when part of a name)
- kidney — Anatomy. either of a pair of bean-shaped organs in the back part of the abdominal cavity that form and excrete urine, regulate fluid and electrolyte balance, and act as endocrine glands.
- kidneys — Anatomy. either of a pair of bean-shaped organs in the back part of the abdominal cavity that form and excrete urine, regulate fluid and electrolyte balance, and act as endocrine glands.
- jutty — Architecture. jetty1 (def 4).
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- chitlins — chitterlings
- gustation — the act of tasting.
- gizzard — Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.
- jargon — a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.
- chitterlings — the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
- gizzards — Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.
- brogue — If someone has a brogue, they speak English with a strong accent, especially Irish or Scots.
- naze — a cape at the S tip of Norway, on the North Sea.
- foreland — a cape, headland, or promontory.
- localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- natural language — a language used as a native tongue by a group of speakers.
- diaphysis — the shaft of a long bone
- nonfiction — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
- cape — A cape is a large piece of land that sticks out into the sea from the coast.
- french-kiss — soul kiss.
- facula — an irregular, unusually bright patch on the sun's surface.
- helve — the handle of an ax, hatchet, hammer, or the like.
- language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- helves — the handle of an ax, hatchet, hammer, or the like.
- langue — the linguistic system shared by the members of a community (contrasted with parole).
- idiom — an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- lingo — the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual: gamblers' lingo.
- lingua — the tongue or a part like a tongue.
- dialect — A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
- giblet — (usually plural) the edible viscera of a bird.
- ness — a headland; promontory; cape.
- giblets — The liver, heart, gizzard, and neck of a chicken or other fowl, usually removed before the bird is cooked, and often used to make gravy, stuffing, or soup.
- lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
- linguae — the tongue or a part like a tongue.
- newspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”.
- gout — an acute, recurrent disease characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, chiefly those in the feet and hands, and especially in the great toe, and by an excess of uric acid in the blood.
verb tongue
- lick — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- yack — to talk, especially uninterruptedly and idly; gab; chatter: They've been yakking on the phone for over an hour.
- yacking — to talk, especially uninterruptedly and idly; gab; chatter: They've been yakking on the phone for over an hour.