tonguely
/ˈtʌŋli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[A] meadow / in his own right, all inwardly afire, ten / thousand tonguely shadings painting him / angelic warden of the face of earth."
- "However simple this basic recipe for tonguely delight seems, many men mess it up in gender-specific ways."
- "A quick dash back to the bed. A tonguely examination of her dental work. A frantic clutching between her legs."
- ""Lo-lee-ta." Our palatal journey, our physical introduction, our tonguely tour of her body in all its divisibility, takes us to her complete sundering: the phonemes have become, as indeed they ought to be as the true bearers of signification, whole in themselves."
- "Language must be further defined through language, more tonguely flexing, more mobilized spittle, more swirls of ink."
- "Women are proverbial for tonguely gifts, and orators do not require very great depth. Like the belle with her chit-chat, it is the tone and manner which do execution."
Etymology
From tongue + -ly (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense “appearing like or resembling [what is denoted by the noun]”).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtʌŋli/
- British English: /ˈtʌŋli/