Tongue

What do we mean by tongue?

The fleshy, movable, muscular organ, attached in most vertebrates to the floor of the mouth, that is the principal organ of taste, an aid in chewing and swallowing, and, in humans, an important organ of speech. noun

An analogous organ or part in invertebrate animals, as in certain insects or mollusks. noun

The tongue of an animal, such as a cow, used as food. noun

A spoken language or dialect. noun

Speech; talk. noun

The act or power of speaking. noun

Speech or vocal sounds produced in a state of religious ecstasy. noun

Style or quality of utterance. noun

The bark or baying of a hunting dog that sees game. noun

Something resembling a tongue in shape or function, as. noun

The vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument. noun

A flame. noun

The flap of material under the laces or buckles of a shoe. noun

A spit of land; a promontory. noun

A bell clapper. noun

The harnessing pole attached to the front axle of a horse-drawn vehicle. noun

A protruding strip along the edge of a board that fits into a matching groove on the edge of another board. noun

To separate or articulate (notes played on a brass or wind instrument) by shutting off the stream of air with the tongue. intransitive verb

The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).−

(metonym) A language.

Speakers of a language, collectively.

Voice (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).

Manner of speaking, often habitually.

(metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).

The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Honourable discourse; eulogy.

(often in the plural) Glossolalia.

In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).

Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

The clapper of a bell.

An individual point of flame from a fire.

A small sole (type of fish).

A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

A reed.

A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.

Words that are spelled similarly to tongue:
tongue, longue, tonge, togue, tangue, toungue, tonguy.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word tongue:
lingual, cheek, papillae, palate, groove, alveolar, lips, piercing, articulation, consonants, nectar, mouth, teeth, throat, glacier, muscles, jaw, cavity, punjabi, tip, lip, vowel, taste, nerve, mandarin, urdu, spoken, speak, boards, language, oral, dialect, unrelated, hindi, languages, timber, ceiling, prey, muscle, mammals, tamil, boarding, arabic, sounds, speech, root, numbered, tied, insects, bone, speaking, spoke, hebrew, soft, neck, routes, roof, ethnic.

Words that rhyme with tongue:
among, young, lung, hung, bung, dung, rung, clung, flung, sprung, pung, wrung, strung, chung, unsung, swung, tung, slung, sung, stung, brung, overhung, kung, yung, gung, fung, ung, zedong, iron lung, junge, phung, kyung, black lung, myung, book lung, egg fu yung, have young, lobe of the lung, mcclung, samsung, hsiung, drepung, nueyung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe tongue:
native, own, english, foreign, latin, long, sharp, unknown, vulgar, red, forked, common, french, greek, strange, dry, mother, coated, pink, german, black, ancient, indian, original, ready, smooth, furred, rough, civil, spanish, spoken, sore, thick, glib, italian, alien, quick, eloquent, narrow, hairy, evil, wet, soft, loose, bitter, double, holy, cold, parched, irish, sweet, swollen, warm, foul, geographic, arabic, sacred, golden, oral, wicked, persuasive, fissured, celtic, roman, sticky, silent, still, caustic, moist, universal, gaelic, false, fluent, fiery, posterior, mortal, deceitful.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective tongue:
cheek, tie, speakers, education, tip, twisters, twisting, incheek, phenomenon, teaching, fern, instruction, thrust, thrusting, speaking, tied, groove, position, lashings, plow, states, jaw, state, syndrome, depressor, fence, sucking, consciousness, ferns, group, groups, countries, twister, speaker, cut, grafting, experience, protrusion, complaints, wagging, classes, literacy, positions, maintenance, blade, buckle, medium, body, flicking, interference, worms, speech, contact, schools, languages, population, teachers, height, experiences, diversity, lash, lizard, shift, lashing, agility, bone, sounds, kissing, english, forceps, river, teeth, bars, flicks, phenomena, check, bar, raters, rolling, grass, depressors, root, graft, learning, composition, plows, ornament, out, swallowing, flap.

Consonant match to tongue:
tang, tong, ting, tung, teng, tangue.

Words that sound like tongue:
tongue, tung, tunge, ting, teng, ton, tang, tum, tong, tonne, tun, tumb, tten, pten, dung, ten, tin, tim, tem, tenn, timme, timm, teme, tym, tinn, temme, tinh, tyn, tenne, ptin, tle, tull, tulle, tyl, ptl, htl, htol, ttl, ttul, time, town, to, team, teen, tone, tom, tan, tomb, tame, tine, ding, toon, tongues, tome, stung, tain, tam, teem, toen, tean, tane, toom, thom, deng, tongued, tein, tonn, taim, toin, tann, tene, toan, toone, taine, tombe, toun, tahn, taun, tamm, tomm, taan, tng, toem, hta, tanne, taen, tomme, teun, teine, tamb, tanh, taam, dhing, tonguey, dingue, -teen, -tome, -tongued, teyne, tonguy.