Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: garrulous, loquacious, talkative
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Using many words; containing grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: bombastic, flowery, verbose
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Manifested by fluent or voluble speech.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Involving the tongue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Resembling a tongue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
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noun
An act or an instance of kissing that involves the use of one's tongue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, UK
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Synonyms: French kiss
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English tungy, tungi, equivalent to tongue + -y. Compare Old English tynġe (“fluent, eloquent, skillful”).
