单词 | tongue-tied |
释义 | tongue-tiedadj. Tied as to or in the tongue. 1. Having the frænum of the tongue too short, so that its movement is impeded or confined; incapable of distinct utterance from this cause; also, unable to speak, dumb (poetic). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [adjective] > specific disorders tongue-tied1530 scanning1881 word-deaf1883 word-blind1888 paragraphic1899 paraphasic1899 adenoidal1908 telegraphic1916 adenoidy1926 paragrammatic1956 logorrhœic1960 paragrammatical1962 logorrhœtic1965 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vocal disorders > [adjective] > dumb speechlessa1000 dumbc1000 deaf and dumb?c1225 mutec1400 tongueless1447 voiceless1535 wordless1648 tongue-tied1707 deaf-dumb1822 deaf-mute1837 utterless1854 unspeakable1888 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 282/1 Tongetyed, qui a le filet. a1623 H. Swinburne Treat. Spousals (1686) 19 Until that time they are as it were Tongue-tied, being unable to speak. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 389 If she were deaf, and Tongue-ty'd. 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1153/2 The tongue may be unnaturally fixed..the individual thus circumstanced being tongue-tied. 2. figurative. Restrained or debarred from speaking or free expression from any cause; speechless, mute, dumb, silent; also reticent, reserved. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective] unspeakinga1382 speechless1390 mutec1400 dumb1406 silenta1425 peaceablec1425 secretc1440 of few wordsa1500 tongue-tied1529 mum1532 closec1540 strait-laced1546 tongue-dumb1556 incommunicable1568 sparing1568 inconversable1577 retentive1599 wordless1604 mumbudget1622 uncommunicable1628 monastica1631 word-bound1644 on (also upon) the reserve1655 strait-mouthed1664 oyster-like1665 incommunicative1670 mumchance1681 speechless1726 taciturnous1727 tongue-tacked1727 monosyllabic1735 silentish1737 untalkative1739 silentious1749 buttoned-up1767 taciturn1771 close as wax1772 untittletattling1779 reticent1825 voiceless1827 say-nothing1838 unremonstrant1841 still1855 unvocal1858 inexpansive186. short-tongued1864 non-communicating1865 tight-lipped1876 unworded1886 chup1896 tongue-bound1906 shut-mouthed1936 zip-lipped1943 shtum1958 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 107/2 He is of nature nothing tonge tayed. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (iii. 5) He himselfe was not tungtyde, but rather lifted up his voyce. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. C.iijv Nor none serue God, but only tongtide men. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xix. 364 A dumbe and tongue-tide [L. elinguis] Consull. 1640 J. Yorke Commend. Verses in Union of Honour Criticks be tongue-ti'd, stand, admire. 1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VIII. 9 Fear kept them all tongue-tied, and dumb. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxvi. 269 I was..sitting tongue-tied between shame and merriment. Derivatives ˈtongue-tiedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > specific disorders or faults tongue-tiedness1598 plateasm1656 tongue-tying1762 paraphonia1772 lullaby-speech1822 cleft palate1847 paralalia1848 logoneurosis1857 zetacism1860 alogia1864 lallation1864 lambdacism1864 semi-mute1864 heterophemy1875 agrammatism1877 bradyphrasia1877 heterophasia1877 logopathy1877 paragraphia1877 paralexia1877 paraphasia1877 paraphrasia1877 verbigeration1877 recurring utterance1878 word blindness1878 word deafness1878 scanning1887 sigmatism1888 idioglossia1891 staccato utterance1898 word salad1904 palilalia1908 paragrammatism1924 idiolalia1930 dysprosody1947 Broca's aphasia1959 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 24/2 When as we would cut the tunge-tyednes in yonge children nuely borne. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 348 The ancylosis, or tongue-tiednesse, caused, by the vinculum; it's cured, by cutting the same with a paire of cisers or sharp knife. 1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. i. iv. 59 And now this tongue-tiedness—this clumsy intrusion—which she must feel to be an indelicacy—an outrage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1529 |
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