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- noun Plural form of
tonguester .
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Examples
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These tonguesters of Cotrone had their predecessors in the public place of Croton, who began to gossip before dawn, and gabbled unceasingly till after nightfall; with their voices must often have mingled the bleating of goats or the lowing of oxen, just as I heard the sounds to-day.
By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880
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Cranes!’ till one of the younger Goths, more quick-tempered and less disdainful than his brothers, gave a buffet to one of these ill-mannered tonguesters which laid him sprawling and howling in the dust.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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