| 单词 | to give tongue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give tongue a. In phrases: to move (its) tongue, to bark (archaic); to give tongue, to throw (its) tongue, of a hound: to give forth its voice when on the scent or in sight of the quarry; also transferred of persons. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] matheleOE speakc888 spellc888 yedc888 i-quethec900 reirdOE meldOE meleOE quidOE i-meleOE wordOE to open one's mouth (also lips)OE mootOE spellc1175 carpa1240 spilec1275 bespeakc1314 adda1382 mella1400 moutha1400 utter?a1400 lalec1400 nurnc1400 parlec1400 talkc1400 to say forthc1405 rekea1450 to say on1487 nevena1500 quinch1511 quetch1530 queckc1540 walk1550 cant1567 twang1602 articulate1615 tella1616 betalk1622 sermocinate1623 to give tongue1737 jaw1748 to break stillness1768 outspeaka1788 to give mouth1854 larum1877 to make noises1909 verbal1974 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound openc1425 cry1486 yearn1523 chant1573 babble1575 to lead chawle1589 to spend the mouth1590 spend1602 to give tongue1737 to throw (its) tongue1742 speak1826 tongue1832 to give mouth1854 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Josh. x. D No man durst moue his tunge agaynst the children of Israel. 1539 Bible (Great) Exod. xi. 7 But amonge all the children of Isrl' shal not a dogg moue his tonge, nor yet man or beast. 1737 Ld. Hervey Mem. II. 374 To speak in the sportsman's style, he has not given tongue often. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. v. 101 Ringwood..never threw his Tongue but where the Scent was undoubtedly true. View more context for this quotation 1843 R. Palmer in Mem. (1896) I. xxiv. 353 I nearly picked a quarrel with a Repealer, who opened tongue to the people in the market place of Larne. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton ii, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 52 When Papa opened the door Chubby was giving tongue energetically. 1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) xii. 203 When a hound throws his tongue he is said to speak. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xx. 518 He was for a moment undisputed lord, without a dog moving his tongue against him, from the Orkneys to the Angevin march. 1893 Black & White 15 July 81/1 He has a tendency to throw his tongue too freely, to speak without fair warrant. < as lemmas |
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