tongue lashing (tunglash"ing)

A scolding; wordy abuse or vituperation. tonguele (tung'les), a. [Early mod. E. also tongle e; silent. This murder might haue slept in tongle e bra e But for our selues. geria. tongue-warrior (tung'wor"i-or), n. One who fights only with the tongue; "a tongue-valiant hero. Irritated from time to time by these tongue - warriors . Add is on, Pretty Disaffection. tongue-work (tung'werk), n. 11. Work in the tongues; philological labor. And let this comparison of a labouring man by the way put you in minde (gentle reader) of his labours that hath laboured so much and so long to saue you a labour, which I doubt not but he may as iustly stand vpon in this toong work as in Latin Sir Thomas Eliot, Bishop Cooper,.. after them Thomas Thomas and John Rider, have done amongst vs. Florio , It. Dict. (1598), To the Reader, p. [xii.]. 2. Talk; babble. [Colloq.] I've seen it again and again. If a man takes to tongue work, it's all over with him. George Eliot, Felix Holt, xx. C. Tourneur, Revenger's Tragedy, v. 3. tongue-worm (tung'werm), n. IMG:content-0558.png:[blocks in formation] A boasting, insolent tongue -man! tongue-membrane (tung'membrān), n. The lingual ribbon of a mollusk. See cuts under radula and ribbon .