Tongue

Definition: Tongue

Tongue

Noun

1. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.

2. A human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language.

3. Any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark".

4. A manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue".

5. A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea.

6. The tongue of certain animals used as meat.

7. The flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot.

8. Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side.

Verb

1. Articulate by tonguing, as on wind instruments.

2. Lick or explore with the tongue.

Date "tongue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definition
19th Century Satire	An unruly member that is frequently put out, yet an artist who's a hard worker at the palate and a great wag among women. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Building & Civil Engineering	A prepared projecting portion of a piece of wood, commonly forming or reinforcing a connection, as in a tongued-and-grooved joint. Source: European Union. (references)
	The point where the volute begins. Source: European Union. (references)
	A switch piece consisting essentially of a movable tongue with a suitable enclosing and supporting body structure, designed for use on one side of the track while on the other side there is used either a mate or another tongue switch. A tongue switch is termed inside or outside depending upon whether it is placed on the inside or on the outside of the curve, the outside tongue switch being comparatively little used. Source: European Union. (references)
Dream Interpretation	To dream of seeing your own tongue, denotes that you will be looked upon with disfavor by your acquaintances. To see the tongue of another, foretells that scandal will villify you. To dream that your tongue is affected in any way, denotes that your carelessness in talking will get you into trouble. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Engineering & Technology	An extension of a scored section in a key-opening can, to which the key is first attached when opening the can. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	The narrowed, prepared top of an axe handle(i. e. helve)that is driven through and wedged in the eye of the axe head. Source: European Union. (references)
	The pole of a log sledge or waggon to which steering and tractive power is applied. Source: European Union. (references)
Geography	A projection of the ice edge up to several kilometres in length, caused by wind or current. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. A branch or offshoot of a larger intrusive body. See also:epiphysis Syn:apophysis b. A minor lithostratigraphic unit of limited geographic extent, being a subdivision of a formation or member, and disappearing laterally (usually by facies change) in one direction; a member that extends outward beyond the main body of a formation. CF:lentil c. A lava flow that is an offshoot from a larger flow; it may be as muchas several kilometers in length. (references)
Slang in 1811	TONGUE. Tongue enough for two sets of teeth: said of a talkative person. As old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth; a dovetail in answer to the question, How old are you? Tongue pad; a scold, or nimble-tongued person. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Tongue

Synonyms: clapper (n), glossa (n), knife (n), lingua (n), natural language (n), spit (n). (additional references)

Antonym: artificial language (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Convexity	Tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf; (sharpness); bow; mamelon; molar; belly, corporation, pot belly, gut; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.
Language	Noun: language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect.
Loquacity	Fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words;flux de bouche, flux de mots; copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi; furor loquendi; verbosity; (diffuseness); gift of the gab; (eloquence).
Taste	Palate, tongue, tooth, stomach.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tongue

English words defined with "tongue": adder's tongue, adder's tongue fern ♦ beef tongue, black tongue ♦ calf's tongue ♦ furry tongue ♦ hairy tongue ♦ mother tongue, mother-in-law's tongue ♦ Serpent's tongue ♦ tongue depressor, tongue tie, tongue twister. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tongue": BUTTOCK AND TONGUE ♦ Tongue Habits, Tongue Neoplasms, TONGUE PRESSER, tongue test. (references)

Etymologies containing "tongue": Vermilinguia. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Doug! I think I just felt your tongue in my mouth (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner) I always enjoyed learning a new tongue. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) Silence! Hold your forked tongue behind your teeth (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Get your tongue out of my arse there Gary (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Your face is always on the tip of my tongue. (Hot Shots; writing credit: Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft)
Lyrics	Speak your heart, Don't bite your tongue (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) My tongue is tied it's crazy (I Get Weak; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle) Fierce nipple pierce you got me sprung with your tongue ring (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town) Got a tongue ring and dirty mouth (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) Splashing tongue taste (Stay (Wasting Time); performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)
Clever	A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. (references; author: Mark Twain) The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. (references; author: Japanese Proverb) Precious is the parrot who is trained by a clean tongue. (references; author: unknown) A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head. (references; author: unknown) Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these is: It might have been. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Tongue (1973) The Fastest Tongue in the West (1971) Slip of the Tongue (1970) The Tongue Mark (1913) Native Tongue (1999)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The Judas Rose (Native Tongue 2) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Inspector Morse: The Wolvercote Tongue (reference) Killer Tongue (reference) AD Police Files 3: The Man Who Bites His Tongue (reference) The Story of English - Program 7 & 8 (The Muvver Tongue and The Loaded Weapon) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Dragon's Tongue (reference) From Filthy Tongue of Gods & Griots (reference) Tongue (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Freud 99-032 Wedge and Tongue Bit (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Black tongue associated with penicillin therapy. Credit: CDC.		Aphthous stomatitis, tongue. Credit: CDC.
	The tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska, fills most of this image. The Malaspina lies west of Yakutat Bay and covers 1,500 sq mi (3,880 sq km). Credit: NASA.		The Campbell Ice Tongue protruding into the Ross Sea. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Entrance to an ice cave at Erebus Glacier tongue. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Image #2 of sequence. SST anomalies in January were close to the highest observ ed during the most recent El Nino. There is little or no evidence of the equato rial cold tongue or of enhanced chlorophyll along the equator. Credit: Fisheries.
	Image #3 of sequence. In sharp contrast, by July 1998, a dramatic recovery had taken place. There is a well-developed cold tongue and a dramatic bloom of phytoplankton along the equator. High chlorophyll concentrations had not previously been observed over such a large area. Credit: Fisheries.		Flamingo tongue snail on a sea fan close-up. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.
	Grand Hound's Tongue (Cynoglossum grande) in the Upper Table Rock area. Credit: Terry Tuttle.		Close up of Grand Hound's Tongue (Cynoglossum grande) in the Upper Table Rock area. Credit: Terry Tuttle.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Aeschylus	A great ox stands on my tongue.
Euripides	'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Francis Quarles	Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
Homer	From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.
Miguel De Cervantes	Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Shakespeare	A killing tongue, but a quiet sword.
The Talmud	The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
William Shakespeare	Keep a good tongue in your head.
	Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	I have a great deal of vivacity in my own way, but I really must be allowed to judge when to speak and when to hold my tongue.
Maggie's Visit to Oxford	Carroll, Lewis	So Maggie held her tongue.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	All at once she perceived the two others in their swing, stopped short, and put out her tongue in token of admiration
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Stephen, his tongue cleaving to his palate, bowed his head, praying with his heart
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have Some patient leisure to excuse myself
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He chewed his gum slowly and turned it with his tongue.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I spoke in the Balnibarbian tongue, and my interpreter delivered my meaning in that of Luggnagg
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The one is commonly transitory, a sound, a tongue, a dialect merely, almost brutish, and we learn it unconsciously, like the brutes, of our mothers
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Palpate the tongue to detect growths. (references)
		Gently brush your tongue, which can trap germs. (references)
		Taste loss in the tongue and dry mouth and eyes may also occur. (references)
Business		Oral health is concerned with the well-being of the mouth and its structures, including the teeth, tongue, jaws, supporting tissues and salivary glands. (references)
Civil Liberties	Iraq	In February opposition press reported that the Government added the penalty of cutting out the tongue of anyone who ridiculed the President. (references)
Economic History	Sri Lanka	Sinhala, an Indo-European language, is the native tongue of the Sinhalese. (references)
	China	There is a good and growing market for pork offal and organ variety meats such as stomach, tongue, and tripe. (references)
Human Rights	Iraq	Similar tongue amputations also reportedly occurred in the city of Hilla during the year. (references)
	Iraq	In 2000 the authorities reportedly introduced tongue amputation as a punishment for persons who criticize Saddam Hussein or his family, and on July 17, government authorities reportedly amputated the tongue of a person who allegedly criticized Saddam Hussein. (references)
Minorities	Ethiopia	This drew protests from groups that reside in Oromiya whose mother tongue is not Oromiffa and who believe that their children are now at a disadvantage. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Brad Silberling	I went the other extreme. For a long time, I always bit my tongue and just thought, oh, I can't become a cliche because I've lost somebody dear to me. But I am cautious. Yeah, you bet. I'm very aware, and I ask that now with my family.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Tongue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.61% of the time. "Tongue" is used about 2,386 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
Noun (singular)	97.61%	2,330	3,816
Noun (proper)	2.13%	51	47,619
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.25%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	2,386	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "tongue" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Tongue	Last name	300	24,145
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "tongue".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Bilshan	N/A	Biblical	In the tongue
Phichol	N/A	Biblical	Every tongue
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tongue": a coated tongue ♦ a glib tongue ♦ a slip of the tongue ♦ a smooth tongue ♦ ad trippingly on the tongue ♦ adder's tongue ♦ adder's tongue fern ♦ back of the tongue ♦ be unable to hold one's tongue ♦ beef tongue ♦ bite the tongue ♦ black tongue ♦ blistering tongue ♦ blue tongue ♦ bull tongue ♦ calf's tongue ♦ caustic tongue ♦ click one's tongue ♦ cow's tongue ♦ dart its tongue in and out ♦ devil's tongue ♦ double tongue ♦ egg and tongue ♦ envenomed tongue ♦ evil tongue ♦ flash tongue ♦ furred tongue ♦ furry tongue ♦ give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue ♦ give tongue to ♦ go to it hammer and tongue ♦ Goose tongue ♦ guard one's tongue ♦ hairy tongue ♦ have a long tongue ♦ have a loose tongue ♦ have a ready tongue ♦ have a rough tongue ♦ have at the end of one's tongue ♦ have at the tip of one's tongue ♦ have it on the tip of one's tongue ♦ have on the tip of one's tongue ♦ her tongue goes nineteen to the dozen ♦ hold one's tongue ♦ in the vulgar tongue ♦ Lamb's tongue ♦ lapse of the tongue ♦ lash of one's tongue ♦ loose tongue ♦ loosen smb.'s tongue ♦ make a slip of the tongue ♦ make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth ♦ malicious tongue ♦ mother tongue ♦ native tongue ♦ neat's tongue ♦ oil one's tongue ♦ on the tip of one's tongue ♦ ox tongue ♦ painted tongue ♦ protractile tongue ♦ put one's tongue out ♦ put out one's tongue ♦ root of the tongue ♦ Serpent's tongue ♦ sharp tongue ♦ slip of the tongue ♦ speak with one's tongue in one's cheek ♦ strawberry tongue ♦ tab washer with internal tongue ♦ the mother tongue ♦ the tongue running on wheels ♦ tip of the tongue ♦ To bite the tongue ♦ To give tongue ♦ To hold the tongue ♦ To smite with the tongue ♦ Tongue acupuncture ♦ tongue and groove ♦ tongue and groove joint ♦ Tongue bone ♦ tongue depressor ♦ Tongue diagnosis ♦ tongue fern ♦ Tongue grafting ♦ Tongue Habits ♦ tongue in cheek ♦ Tongue Neoplasms ♦ tongue of a lock ♦ tongue of bell ♦ tongue sense ♦ tongue stroke ♦ tongue tie ♦ tongue tied ♦ tongue twister ♦ tongue worm ♦ tongued washer with external tongue ♦ tongued washer with internal tongue ♦ unloose smb.'s tongue ♦ vernacular tongue ♦ vicious tongue. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tongue": tongue-and-groove, tongue-and-grooved, tongue-back, tongue-depressors, tongue-frazzling, tongue-incheek, tongue-in-cheek, tongue-in-chic, tongue-in-the-cheek, tongue-lash, tongue-lashing, tongue-lashings, tongue-like, tongue-lip, Tongue-pad, tongue-poking, tongue-sandwiches, tongue-setting, tongue-shaped, Tongue-shell, tongue-slip, tongue-swelling, tongue-teasing, tongue-tie, tongue-tied, tongue-tip, tongue-twister, tongue-twisters, tongue-twisting, tongue-wagging.
	Ending with "tongue": mother-tongue, Praise-tongue.
	Containing "tongue": be tongue-tied, cow-tongue fern, forked-tongue-speak, hart's-tongue fern, he is tongue-tied.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tongue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		taal (language). (various references)

Albanian		gjuhë (idiom, language, spirt). (various references)

Arabic		‏نباح (bark, barking, cry, howl, ululation, yap, yelp), ‏لغة (idiom, language, parlance, speech, talk), ‏لسن الخشب, ‏لسان (armlet, cape, language, tab, tenon), ‏تكلم (bleat, mouth, say, speak, spoke), ‏خرج اللسان, ‏شىء كاللسان. (various references)

Asturian		llingua. (various references)

Aymara		lajhra. (various references)

Bavarian		plesche. (various references)

Bemba		ululimi (language). (various references)

Blackfoot		matsiní. (various references)

Bulgarian		свиря стакато, реч (address, allocution, language, speech, utterance), цапфа (gudgeon, journal, pin, teat, tenon, wrist, wrist pin), федер, тесен залив, теглич (beam, rod, shaft, shank), котва (anchor, armature, keeper, pallet), нос (boko, bow, conk, foreland, head, headland, hoe, hook, naze, nose, nozzle, pecker, point, promontory, prow, smeller, stem), нещо с форма на език, зъб (cog, knife, notch, prong, tooth), език на стрелка, език (idiom, language, parlance, pawl, red rag, speech, striker, terms), процеп за кола. (various references)

Catalan		llengua, idioma (language). (various references)

Cebuano		dila. (various references)

Chamorro		hula'. (various references)

Chinese		舌頭 , 舌头, 舌 (name of an emperor). (various references)

Cornish		tavas. (various references)

Czech		jazyk (Lang, language, speech), jazýèek, řeè (harangue, language, oration, speech, talk). (various references)

Danish		tunge (sole), sprog (language). (various references)

Dutch		tong (sole). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua		callu. (various references)

Esperanto		lingvo (language), lango. (various references)

Faeroese		tunga. (various references)

Farsi		گفتن(باit), زبانه (Finger, Prong), زبان (Language), شاهین ترازو (Beam, Girder, Poniter), دارای زبانه کردن , برزبان اوردن . (various references)

Finnish		kieli (chord, language, string). (various references)

French		langue (tongue of air), parole, languette. (various references)

Frisian		tonge (sole), sprake (dialect, language). (various references)

German		Zunge (lingua, pointer, Reed), Sprache (idiom, language, lingo, speech). (various references)

Greek		γλώσσα (language, lingo, plaice, sole). (various references)

Hawaiian		gjuhë (language). (various references)

Hebrew		לשון (expression, language, lingo, speech). (various references)

Hungarian		nyelv (aramaic, index, language, lingo, maori, speech, terms, trip). (various references)

Icelandic		tunga (language). (various references)

Indonesian		lidah. (various references)

Inuktitut		uqaq. (various references)

Irish		theanga, teanga (language). (various references)

Italian		lingua (language, lingua, speech, tonque), linguetta (flap, Reed, spline, tab). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		舌鋒 (eloquence), 舌　, 舌 , ベレー帽 (Bengala, beret, velours), 口舌 (curtain lecture, quarreling, talking recklessly, words), タレット旋盤 (personality, star, talent, tank, tank breathing, tank lorry, tank top, tanker, tower, turret lathe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぜっぽう (eloquence), ベロ , した (below, beneath, under), くぜつ (curtain lecture, lover's tiff, quarreling, September, talking recklessly, words), こうぜつ (curtain lecture, quarreling, talking recklessly, words), タン . (various references)

Kongo		ludimi. (various references)

Korean		혀. (various references)

Lombard		lengua (language). (various references)

Macedonian		jazik (language). (various references)

Malay		lidah, bahasa (language). (various references)

Manx		cur chengey er, chengaghey. (various references)

Maori		arero. (various references)

Maya		aak (grass, turtle). (various references)

Mohawk		en'nahsa. (various references)

Norwegian		tunge (sole), språk (language). (various references)

Papago		nehni. (various references)

Papiamen		lenga (language), idioma (language), abla (language, speech). (various references)

Pig Latin		onguetay.(various references)

Polish		język. (various references)

Portuguese		linguagem (idiom, language, parlance, speech), língua (clapper, idiom, language, speech), lingueta (bolt, catch, feather, pallet), idioma (idiom, language, speech). (various references)

Provencal		lenga (language). (various references)

Romanian		limbaj (accent, fine language, language, parlance, speech), limbå (language), limbã (dialect, finger board, language, manner of speech, phrase, speech, word), indicator al balanţe, grai (faculty of speech, idiom, patois, power of speech, speech, voice, word), cordar (gag), arãtãtor (hour hand, pointer). (various references)

Romany		cshib. (various references)

Ruanda		ururimi. (various references)

Russian		язык (clapper, language, parlance, parliamentary language, phrase, phraseology). (various references)

Samoan		laulaufaiva. (various references)

Scottish		teanga (language, speech). (various references)

Sepedi		leleme. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rt (cape, foreland, headland, naze, ness, promontory), palacati (dart), kevtati (yap, yelp), jezik (language, lingo), jezičak, govoriti (militate, say, speak, talk, tell), govor (address, discourse, jib, oration, speaking, speech, talk). (various references)

Shona		rurimi. (various references)

Sicilian		linguaggiu. (various references)

Spanish		lengua (diction, language, league, lingo, spit), lengüeta (barb, beard, epiglottis, Reed, tab). (various references)

Sranan		tongo (language). (various references)

Swahili		ulimi, lugha (language). (various references)

Swazi		lú-lwîmi (language). (various references)

Swedish		tunga (needle, pointer, Reed, sole, tail, tounge), tungomål (language), språk (diction, idiom, language, languages, phrase, speech, talk, writing). (various references)

Tagalog		wikà (language), dilà. (various references)

Turkish		uzantı (appendage, bill, extension, extremities, offset, scape, Stipe), lisan (language), geçme yapmak, erkek parça, dil vuruşu yapmak, dil (clapper, language, lingo, parlance, speech). (various references)

Turkmen		pitikilemek (click one's tongue, snap one's fingers), яaсyltmaз (tongue-twister), ene dili (mother tongue). (various references)

Ukrainian		язик, розмовляти (confabulate, converse, discourse), говорити (say, speak, talk, tell, word), ганьбити (abuse, animadvert, asperse, attaint, besmirch, blaspheme, defame, disgrace, inveigh, reproach, scandalize, shame, soil, spot, stain, tarnish, vilify, vituperate, wrong), мова (dialect, language, orison, phraseology, speech, words), манера говорити. (various references)

Vietnamese		ngôn ngữ vật hình lưỡi, miệng lưỡi tiếng, mau miệng nín lặng, một cuộc tranh luận bạo nói ăn nói lạ chứ!, lúng túng (chancery, disconcerted, embarrassed, perplexed, sheepish), cái lưỡi cách ăn nói. (various references)

Welsh		tafod. (various references)

Yucatec		ak' (grapevine, vine

Country	Name
USA	Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
tongue	2,909	tongue vibrator	105
tongue ring	1,614	blonder tongue	88
tongue piercing	1,464	tongue kissing	86
tongue twister	434	pierced tongue	81
tongue cancer	329	burning tongue	80
sore tongue	283	tongue barbell	79
splitting tongue	276	tongue ulcer	76
geographic tongue	215	swollen tongue	74
tongue jewelry	210	coated tongue	72
speaking in tongue	209	hairy tongue	66
long tongue	165	girl tongue	66
tongue tied	137	magazine tongue	65
black tongue	133	anatomy tongue	64
tongue disease	127	tongue sex	63
tongue white	122	cum tongue	61
vibrating tongue ring	120	tongue disorder	60
picture of tongue piercing	120	female tongue	57
split tongue	110	tongue stud	55
tongue picture	108	tongue fetish	55
bump on tongue	107	tongue groove	53
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Tongue" by Billy Fowks Commentary: "Me and my best friend. Wasted on a Saturday afternoon. I would love to know what my pictures are being used for. Please let me know. Thanks!."	"Tongue" by Christo Pacheco Commentary: "Girl at park in Seattle."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Tongue

Definition: Tongue

Tongue

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Tongue

Specialty Definition: Tongue

Intrinsic muscles of the tongue

Synonyms: Tongue

Synonyms within Context: Tongue

Convexity

Language

Loquacity

Taste

Crosswords: Tongue

Modern Usage: Tongue

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Tongue

References

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Consumer Goods

Image Slideshow: Tongue

Photos:Tongue

Illustrations:Tongue

Computer Images:Tongue

Photo Album: Tongue

Digital Photo Gallery: Tongue

Familiar Quotations: Tongue

Aeschylus

Euripides

Francis Quarles

Homer

Miguel De Cervantes

Shakespeare

The Talmud

William Shakespeare

Use in Literature: Tongue

Emma

Austen, Jane

Maggie's Visit to Oxford

Carroll, Lewis

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Tongue

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Tongue

Brad Silberling

Usage Frequency: Tongue

Name Usage Frequency: Tongue

Derived & Related Names: Tongue

Usage in Company Names: Tongue

Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc.

Expressions: Tongue

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tongue

Modern Translation: Tongue

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Asturian

Aymara

Bavarian

Bemba

Photos:
Tongue

Illustrations:
Tongue

Computer Images:
Tongue