Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To play a rapidly repeated series of notes on a wind instrument by placing the tongue alternately between the positions for t and k.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Duplicity; deceitfulness.
- In music, in playing the flute and certain brass instruments, like the cornet, to apply the tongue rapidly to the teeth and the hard palate alternately, so as to insure a brilliant execution of a staccato passage.
- n. A kind of dwarf butcher's-broom, Ruscus Hypoglossum, of southern Europe: so called from the appearance of the cladodes. See Ruscus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Deceit; duplicity.
WordNet 3.0
- v. play fast notes on a wind instrument
Examples
“A double-tongue miter_, Fig. 268, is made by cutting on the adjoining edges tongues which engage in each other.”
“Divide them Lord & from them pul thier devilish double-tongue.”
“Mix it up with these Converse Chuck Taylor double-tongue shoes.”
“We ain’t givin’ you any double-tongue wag over this — —”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘double-tongue’.
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tongue phrases
how tongue is used
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
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Fife and Drum Words
For all those fifers and drummers out there... This one's for you.
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Speaking in tongues
Tongue words and phrases.
tongue-tied, tongue-lashing, tongue-twister, tongue-in-cheek, forked tongue, tongue-chain, speaking in tongues, gift of tongues, on the tip of one..., tongue-work, tongue-fence, tongue bone and 72 more...
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