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单词 long-tongued
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long-tonguedadj.

Brit. /ˌlɒŋˈtʌŋɡd/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋˈˌtəŋɡd/, /ˈlɑŋˈˌtəŋɡd/
Forms: see long adj.1 and n.1 and tongued adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: long adj.1, tongued adj.
Etymology: < long adj.1 + tongued adj. Compare long tongue n.
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.
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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).
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