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单词 free-tongued
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free-tongued
free-tongued adj.
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1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 51 Neuer sad, free-tongd, free-hart, free-handed Iacchus.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iv. 52 A free tongu'd woman, And very excellent at telling secrets.
1739 R. Glover London 21 In free-tongu'd senates oft with nervous laws To circumscribe, or conqu'ring to depose Their sceptred tyrants.
1953 G. J. Nathan Theatre in Fifties 290 The desire of everyone to be a free-tongued critic is most fully satisfied by baseball.
2005 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 May a13 There was something amusingly refreshing about the free-tongued bluntness of the Netherlands' foreign trade minister..in a city where euphemism and diplomacy rule.
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