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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fluent, or voluble in speech; loquacious; garrulous.
Examples
“She planted a hard, tonguey kiss on his resistant lips.”
“If you're a memoirist who writes only about himself, and then you write a cheeky-tonguey column about how you refuse to read the news because it distracts you from contemplating and writing about yourself, then you might as well have left your licker in the middle of your mouth.”
“I'd have Rome the capital, myself president, Garibaldi commander-in-chief, Mazzini secretary of state -- a man, Sir, that can lick even Bill Seward himself in a regular, old-fashioned, tonguey, subtile, diplomatic note.”
“A tonguey corporal, slightly under regulation size, in an exuberance of spirits, had mounted a cracker-box almost immediately in front of the sutler's tent, and commenced a lively harangue.”
“The firing ceased with no damage, save the bruises of the Doctor, and those received by our tonguey little Corporal, who asserted that the windage of a shell knocked him off a fence.”
“When gals is full-rigged an 'tonguey, they're reg'lar press-gangs to twist young fellers round, an' make 'em sail under the right colors.”
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
“There was, indeed, only one woman who talked because she was, as Mr. Kronborg said, "tonguey.”
“That'll shut out the tonguey kind," he explained.”
“It was the only real little one in the buildin '-- the others was all the tonguey age.”
“When I remember the pigtailed, leggy, tonguey minx that used to fetch me clumps over the head -- and then regard this beatific vision -- I'm afraid I'll wake up and you'll be gone!”
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