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Definition: Smooth-tongued |
Smooth-tonguedAdjective1. Artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth-tongued hypocrite". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "smooth-tongued" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
Synonyms: Smooth-tonguedSynonyms: glib (adj), glib-tongued (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Flattery | Adjective: flattering;Verb: adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Smooth-tongued |
| English words defined with "smooth-tongued": glib, glib-tongued. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "smooth-tongued": Helkai. (references) |
| "Smooth-tongued" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Smooth-tongued" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "smooth-tongued"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 光滑责骂. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | munafik (hypocrite, smooth-faced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 如才 (adroit, affable, clever, sharp, skillful, slick, smart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じょさい (adroit, affable, clever, deacon, sharp, skillful, slick, smart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 매끄럽 혀르 대". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ooth-tonguedsmay de fala mansas, adulador (adulatory, creeping, fawning, flatterer, flunkey, groveller, lackey, lacquey, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, smarmy, smooth-spoken, sugary, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, truckler, tuft-hunter, unctuous). (various references) сладкоречивый (honeymouthed, honey-mouthed, mealymouthed, mealy-mouthed, silver-tongued, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-talking, soft spoken), льстивый (adulatory, flattering, honeyed, honey-mouthed, honied, ingratiating, smarmy, smoothfaced, sycophantic, well oiled, wheedling). (various references) พู"คล่อง (slick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-m-n-o-o-o-s-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: homogenous, theonomous, unsmoothed. | |
-4 letters: toothsome. | |
-5 letters: demounts, doghouse, dogtooth, duotones, gumshoed, hutments, mongoose, moondust, moonshot, mudstone, mungoose, outmodes, outshone, outshoot, outstood, shootout, smoothed, smoothen, stegodon, toughens, toughest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6D 6F 6F 74 68 2D 74 6F 6E 67 75 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101101 01101111 01101111 01110100 01101000 00101101 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S m o o t h - t o n g u e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006D 006F 006F 0074 0068 002D 0074 006F 006E 0067 0075 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5379818186741586818073877170 |
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