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Tongue-tie

Definition: Tongue-tie

Tongue-tie

Verb

1. Deprive of speech; "When he met his idol, the young man was tongue-tied".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tongue-tie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1924. (references)


Modern Translation: Tongue-tie

Language Translations for "tongue-tie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

舌头 " (tongue-tied). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ankyloglossi (ankyloglossia). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lingua fraenata (ankyloglossia), ankyloglossum (ankyloglossia), ankyloglosson (ankyloglossia), ankyloglossie (ankyloglossia), ankyloglossia (ankyloglossia). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kireäkielisyys (ankyloglossia), ankyloglossia (ankyloglossia). (various references)

   

French

  

ankyloglosse. (various references)

   

German

  

Ankyloglossus (ankyloglossia), Ankyloglosson (ankyloglossia), Ankyloglossis (ankyloglossia), Ankyloglossie (ankyloglossia). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γλωσσοδέτης (ankyloglossia), γλωσσοδεσία (ankyloglossia), αγκυλογλωσσία (ankyloglossia). (various references)

   

Italian

  

anchiloglossia (ankyloglossia). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

혀 매십시". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ongue-tietay

   

Portuguese

  

anquiloglosse (ankyloglossia), anciloglosse (ankyloglossia). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

связывать язык/ косноязычие. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

poca facilidad al hablar, anquiloglosia (ankyloglossia). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

недорікуватість, дефект мовного апарату. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tongue-tie

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-o-t-t-u"

-2 letters: touting.

-3 letters: gotten, gunite, outing, teeing, tentie, tenuti, tenuto, toeing, tongue, toting.

-4 letters: genet, genie, ingot, tenet, tenge, tigon, tinge, togue, tutee, ungot, unite, untie.

-5 letters: etui, gene, gent, genu, gien, gone, gout, into, nett, nite, note, ogee, teen, tent, tine, ting, tint, toit, tone, tong, tote, tout, tune, tung, unit, unto.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-o-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: outsteering.

 

+4 letters: counterweight, deuteragonist, electrocuting, telecommuting.

 

+5 letters: counterfeiting, counterweights, deuteragonists, fortunetelling, ultimogeniture.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tongue-tie


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 6E 67 75 65 2D 74 69 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100101 00101101 01110100 01101001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#110 &#103 &#117 &#101 &#45 &#116 &#105 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 006E 0067 0075 0065 002D 0074 0069 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54818073877115867571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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