tongueyadj.
/ˈtʌŋi/ 1. Full of ‘tongue’ or talk; talkative, loquacious (now U.S. and dialect); of hounds, ‘giving tongue’.
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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
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. viii. 4 Striue thou not with a tungy man.
1773 R. Fergusson Poems 88 A tonguey woman's noisy plea.
1836 Life on the Lakes I. 54 We had on board a very tonguey Yankee lawyer.
1877 R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunting Songs (new ed.) 102 Your babblers draft, as we our tonguey hounds.
1896 W. D. Howells Impressions & Experiences 39 There were some men..tongueyer than the rest.
2. That is so ‘in tongue’ or ‘in word’, not ‘in deed’ (cf. 1. John iii. 18).Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [adjective]
whiteda1225
hypocritec1380
papelarda1500
dissimuling?1518
dissembling1526
Pharisaical1527
hypocritish1531
masking1538
hypocritic1540
hypocritely1541
hypocritical1553
mimic1591
transom-eyed1601
tonguey1612
sanctimoniousa1616
Pharisaica1618
crocodilian1632
hypocrital1658
canting1663
double-minded1727
Tartufish1768
dissimulating1794
dissimulative1802
sawneying1808
sham-Abra(ha)m1828
Tartuffian1872
Pecksniffian1874
mawwormish1883
Chadbandian1908
1612 W. Sclater Christians Strength 10 Alas! how many bare, tonguy Christians! Linguists only, in religion.
3. Of the nature of the tongue; produced or modified by the tongue; lingual.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [adjective] > lingual
lingual1668
tonguey1859
1859 F. Francis Newton Dogvane (1888) 25 He set that tonguey pendulum of his going.
1885 H. C. Deacon in Grove Dict. Music IV. 321/1 The quality of the voice..will be tonguey, throaty, palatal, or veiled, according to the part thus unnecessarily brought into play.
Derivatives
ˈtonguiness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun]
overspeecheOE
tongue-itch1540
multiloquy1542
long tongue1557
garrulity1581
slipperiness1589
polylogy1602
volubility1602
loquacity1603
lubricity1603
tonguiness1607
overspeakinga1610
talkativeness1609
philology1623
tongue-vice1628
glibness1633
futility1640
linguacity1656
garrulousness1727
linguosity1727
loquaciousness1727
multiloquiousness1727
jaw1748
multiloquence1760
flippancy1789
verbal diarrhoea1808
magpiety1832
big mouth1834
pleniloquence1838
chattiness1876
open-mouthedness1883
gabbiness1887
garrulance1890
irreticence1919
talkiness1934
ear-bashing1945
mee-mawing1974
1607 S. Collins Serm. Paules-Crosse 77 Some mens silence profits the Church of Christ more than all their tonguinesse can doe it hurt.
1910 Boston Transcript 16 July 2/3 The natural gift of what the old Yankee horse traders would have called tonguiness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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