tongue
noun
uk/tʌŋ/us/tʌŋ/tonguenoun(MOUTH PART)
B1[C]
thelarge,softpieceoffleshin themouththat you canmove, and is used fortasting,speaking, etc.:
舌头Iburnedmy tongue on somesouplastnight.我昨晚喝汤时烫着了舌头。
[U]
the tongue of ananimal, used asfood
（用作食物的动物的）舌头，口条- Thetipof the tongue issensitivetosaltandsweetstimuliand the back of the tongue issensitivetobitterstimuli.
- Thehorseraspedmyhandwith his tongue as Ifedhim theapple.
- Thepoetcompareshis lover's tongue to arazorblade.
- Thedoctoraskedme tostickout my tongue and say 'aah'.
- Thetourguidekeptstickingout her tongue andlickingherlips- it was verydistracting!
The mouth & throat
- -throated
- adenoid
- airway
- alveolar
- alveolar ridge
- buccal
- buccinator
- labiodental
- laryngeal
- larynx
- lingual
- mandibular
- maxillofacial
- soft palate
- tensor veli palatini muscle
- trachea
- uvula
- uvular
- velum
- vocal cords
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Organs eaten as meat
tonguenoun(SHOE)
[C]
apartof anobjectthat is tongue-shaped,especiallythepieceofmaterialthat is under thelacesin ashoe
舌状物（尤指鞋舌）
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Shoes
- ankle boot
- ballet shoe
- Birkenstock
- bootie
- bootlace
- high heels
- high-top
- hiking boot
- hobnail boot
- insole
- running shoe
- sandal
- shoehorn
- shoelace
- shoemaker
- wedge
- wedgie
- wellie
- wellington
- welly
tonguenoun(LANGUAGE)
[C]literary
alanguage:
语言immigrantsstrugglingtolearnaforeigntongue艰难学习外语的移民
anancienttongue古老的语言
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Forms of languages & specialist dialects
- acrolect
- argot
- basilect
- cant
- colloquialism
- functional
- journalese
- legalese
- lingo
- lingua franca
- metalanguage
- MFL
- oral
- patois
- pidgin
- plain English
- Polari
- rhyming slang
- shibboleth
- slang
tonguenoun(STYLE OF EXPRESSION)
[S]
a person's way ofexpressingtheirideasandfeelings:
说话方式She is aprolificwriterwithcriticalviewsand asharp(=severeandcritical)tongue.她是一个多产的作家，观点尖锐，语言犀利。
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- philology
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
Idioms
getyourtongue around/roundsomething
stick/putyourtongue out
tongue in cheek
tongues wagging