tonguenoun
uk/tʌŋ/us/tʌŋ/tongue noun (MOUTH PART)
B1 [ C ] the large, soft piece of flesh in the mouth that you can move, and is used for tasting, speaking, etc.:
[ U ] the tongue of an animal, used as food
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- The tip of the tongue is sensitive to salt and sweet stimuli and the back of the tongue is sensitive to bitter stimuli.
- The horse rasped my hand with his tongue as I fed him the apple.
- The poet compares his lover's tongue to a razor blade.
- The doctor asked me to stick out my tongue and say 'aah'.
- The tour guide kept sticking out her tongue and licking her lips - it was very distracting!
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The mouth & throat
- airway
- alveolar
- alveolar ridge
- buccal
- buccinator
- cricothyroid
- epiglottis
- glottis
- gummy
- larynx
- mandibular
- mylohyoid
- orbicularis
- palate
- palatine
- salivary duct
- taste buds
- trout pout
- vocal cords
- windpipe
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tongue noun (SHOE)
[ C ] a part of an object that is tongue-shaped, especially the piece of material that is under the laces in a shoe
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Shoes
- ankle boot
- ballet shoe
- Birkenstock
- bootlace
- bootstrap
- brogue
- gumboot
- high heels
- high-top
- hobnail boot
- insole
- instep
- shoehorn
- shoelace
- shoestring
- shoetree
- skyscraper heels
- wellington
- welly
- whitening
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tongue noun (LANGUAGE)
[ C ] literary a language:
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Forms of languages & specialist dialects
- acrolect
- argot
- basilect
- cant
- colloquialism
- legalese
- lingo
- lingua franca
- metalanguage
- newspeak
- non-standard
- oral
- patois
- pidgin
- plain English
- rhyming slang
- shibboleth
- slang
- slangy
- speak
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tongue noun (STYLE OF EXPRESSION)
[ S ] a person's way of expressing their ideas and feelings:
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Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- anaphor
- anaphora
- anaphoric
- double entendre
- ellipsis
- idiomatic
- irregular
- lexicology
- linguistic
- litotes
- neurolinguistics
- parallelism
- philology
- portmanteau word
- semantic
- semiotics
- stylistics
- tone language
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