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tonguey, a.|ˈtʌŋɪ|
Also 4–5 tungy, 7–9 tonguy.
[f. tongue n. + -y.]
1. Full of ‘tongue’ or talk; talkative, loquacious (now U.S. and dial.); of hounds, ‘giving tongue’.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. viii. 4 Striue thou not with a tungy man. a1774R. Fergusson Sandie & Willie 55 A tonguey woman's noisy plea. 1836Life on the Lakes I. 54 (Thornton) We had on board a very tonguey Yankee lawyer. 1855R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunting Songs (1877) 102 Your babblers draft, as we our tonguey hounds. 1896Howells Impressions & Exp. 39 There were some men..tongueyer than the rest.
2. That is so ‘in tongue’ or ‘in word’, not ‘in deed’ (cf. 1 John iii. 18). nonce-use.
1612W. Sclater Chr. Strength 10 Alas! how many bare, tonguy Christians! Linguists only, in religion.
3. Of the nature of the tongue; produced or modified by the tongue; lingual.
1859F. Francis Newton Dogvane (1888) 25 He set that tonguey pendulum of his going. 1885H. C. Deacon in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 321/1 The quality of the voice..will be tonguey, throaty, palatal, or veiled, according to the part thus unnecessarily brought into play.
Hence ˈtonguiness.
1607Collins Serm. (1608) 77 Some mens silence profits the Church of Christ more than all their tonguinesse can doe it hurt. 1910Boston (Mass.) Transcript 16 July 2/3 The natural gift of what the old Yankee horse traders would have called tonguiness. |