tongue doughty (tungdou"ti)

Valiant in speech; bragging. [Rare.] Tongue - doughty giant. Milton , S. A., 1. 1180. A talkative, loquacious person; a chatterer; a babbler. Tennyson, Harold, v. 1. [Rare.] tongue-test (tung'test), n. A rough method of testing the condition of a battery or the continuity of an electric circuit, by touching the two ends of a break in the circuit with the tongue, and observing the sensation produced. tongue-tie (tung'ti), n. Impeded motion of the tongue in consequence of the shortne of the frenum linguæ.