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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tongued

/tʌŋd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English

Syllables
tongued
IPA
/tʌŋd/
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling a tongue.

adj

Having a particular manner of speaking.

adj

Having a tongue for towing.

verb

simple past and past participle of tongue

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English tonged, tunged, equivalent to tongue + -ed. Compare Old English ġetynġe (“skilled with speech, talkative, eloquent”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Derived Forms

tonguedness

Phrases

acid-tongued blue-tongued lizard blue-tongued skink Cadena's long-tongued bat close-tongued disc-tongued frog double-tongued false-tongued

Antonyms

tongueless

Rhymes With

lunged munged

Questions

How do you pronounce tongued?
The recorded pronunciation is /tʌŋd/.
What does tongued mean?
Resembling a tongue.
Where does tongued come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce tongued

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