单词 | long-tongued |
释义 | long-tonguedadj. 1. Talkative, loquacious, esp. excessively so; prone to speaking out of turn or revealing secrets. Cf. long tongue n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 ?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. vi. 31 A daughter eke he hath..As vnhappie a longtounged girle as can bee. 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. ii. 102 What, long tongde War. dare you speake? 1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife sig. G3 She blusht & said that long tongu'd men would tell. 1683 A. Marsh Confession New Married Couple 196 What is told them by a tale-carrying, long-tongued Slut of a Maid. 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1797) 56 Lang tongu'd wives gae lang wi' bairn. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 154 The foul fa' ye..for a lang-tongued wife. 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xii You didn't ought to give heed to a long-tongued fellow like Jebb, a man that must be talking. 1947 W. D. Overholser Buckaroo's Code viii. 86 A smart aleck, long-tongued, sashay-dude like you. 1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 121 He could not bear to have it turned against him by his long-tongued son. 2. Of an animal: having a long tongue. Cf. long tongue n. 2. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Turcot,..the little ash-coloured and long-tongued bird, called a Wrynecke. 1791 W. Cowper Iliad & Odyssey 111 There many a bird of broadest pinion built Secure her nest, the owl, the kite, and daw Long-tongued, frequenter of the sandy shores. 1838 Brit. Cycl. VIII. 228/2 Megachile (Latreille), a genus of long- tongued bees, (family Apidæ, sub-family Dasygastres). 1872 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 7 281/1 The bees are divided into two large groups—the short-tongued and the long-tongued. 1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies iii. 259 If a blight or other cause should kill out the tubular flowers on which some long-tongued moth feeds..these moths might die out. 1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants (1963) ii. 215 All the flowers are insect-pollinated, the visitors being mainly long-tongued. 2000 A. J. Whitten et al. Ecol. Sumatra (new ed.) ii. 110 Bats such as..the long-tongued fruit bat Macroglossus sobrinus are very important in the pollination of the flowers of Sonneratia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1553 |
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