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tongue-tied, ppl. a.|ˈtʌŋtaɪd|
[Locative comb. f. tongue n. + tied ppl. a.; becoming at length pa. pple. of tongue-tie v.]
Tied as to or in the tongue.
1. Having the frænum of the tongue too short, so that its movement is impeded or confined; incapable of distinct utterance from this cause; also, unable to speak, dumb (poet.).
1530Palsgr. 282/1 Tongetyed, qui a le filet. 16..Swinburne Spousals (1686) 19 Until that time they are as it were Tongue-tied, being unable to speak. 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 389 If she were deaf, and Tongue-ty'd. 1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 1153/2 The tongue may be unnaturally fixed..the individual thus circumstanced being tongue-tied.
2. fig. Restrained or debarred from speaking or free expression from any cause; speechless, mute, dumb, silent; also reticent, reserved.
1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 107/2 He is of nature nothing tonge tayed. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. iii. 5 He himselfe was not tungtyde, but rather lifted up his voyce. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 57 Nor none serue God, but only tongtide men. 1600Holland Livy x. xix. 364 A dumbe and tongue-tide [elinguis] Consull. 1640Yorke Union Hon., Commend. Verses, Criticks be tongue-ti'd, stand, admire. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. xviii. i. (1827) VII. 357 Fear kept them all tongue-tied and dumb. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xxvi, I was..sitting tongue-tied between shame and merriment.
Hence ˈtongue-tiedness.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 24/2 When as we would cut the tunge-tyednes in yonge children nuely borne. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 348 The ancylosis, or tongue-tiednesse, caused, by the vinculum; it's cured, by cutting the same with a paire of cisers or sharp knife. 1894Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. 59. |