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单词 out-tongue
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out-tonguev.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, tongue v.
Etymology: < out- prefix + tongue v. N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ɑutˌtɒ·ŋ) /aʊtˈtʌŋ/.
Chiefly poetic. Obsolete.
transitive. To outdo in use of the tongue; to speak more loudly or more eloquently than; to surpass in expressive power.
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1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. H3v What shall wee suffer a changeable forepart to out-tongue vs.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. ii. 19 Let him doe his spite, My seruices..Shall out tongue his complaints. View more context for this quotation
1636 W. Davenant Witts iii. i. sig. F Your confederate Pert, is courtly too; Hee will out-tongue a Favorite of France!
1664 H. King To Queen at Oxf. in Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes & Sonets 48 I shall such votes of happiness reherse, Whose softest accents will out-tongue my verse.
1700 C. Cibber Richard III iv. 40 Haste, and pierce him with our cries! That from henceforth his Conscience may out-Tongue The close whispers of his relentless heart.
a1771 C. Smart Madam & Magpie in Poems (1791) II. 23 In vain poor things ye squeak and squall, Soft Sylvia shall out-tongue you all: But here she comes—there's no relief, She comes, and blessed are the deaf.
1844 Fraser's Mag. 465 30,000 preachers that out-tongued her Mamelucks in eloquence.
1849 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Feb. 113 Will it satisfy the popular hope to discourse most eloquent words? No; for Lamartine failed there, and who could out-tongue his oratory?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

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out-tongue
out-tongue v. Obsolete
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. ii. 21 My seruices which I haue done the Seigniorie, Shall out tongue his complaints. View more context for this quotation
1836 D. P. Brown Prophet of St Paul's iii. iii. 30 The ladies' tongues out-tongued the tongue of time.
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