Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Movement of the tongue in order to articulate notes on a brass or wind instrument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. Present participle of tongue.
- n. A technique used with wind instruments to enunciate different notes using the tongue on the reed or mouthpiece.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- v. Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute. In single tonguing only one kind of stroke is used, the tongue articulating a rapid “t;” in double tonguing, two strokes, as for “t” and “k,” are alternated; in triple tonguing, “t, k, t,” etc.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or state of projecting like or as a tongue.
- n. In horticulture, a process intended to promote the rooting of layers. See the quotation.
- n. In playing on musical wind-instruments, the act, process, or result of modifying or interrupting the tone by means of a stroke of the tongue, so as to produce a marcato or staccato effect.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is a facile instrument, and double tonguing, which is also possible with the horn and trumpet, is one of its popular means for display.
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That's because the researchers haven't yet mastered recreating a clarinet playing technique known as tonguing in which the player strikes the reed with their tongue.
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Also, some techniques, such as tonguing -- separating each note by touching the tip of your tongue to the whistle -- and slurring -- stringing notes together -- are more easily demonstrated than explained.
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Woody wood pecker tonguing water chestnuts like communion wafers
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Though she resisted, he took it between his lips, tasting that bud, tonguing it … With a hoarse groan, he began to suckle, his eyes rolling back in his head.
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In the back of my mind I imagined seeing him tonguing the bitch that Sensation had told me about.
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The guy's under criminal investigation, sneaks around tonguing teenagers, assassinates the political careers of his opponents, buys off reporters with jobs for which they aren't qualified, admits he has a terrible time telling the truth about anything, is reneging on his debts, drives recklessly (or worse), can't file his financial disclosure forms on time -- do you think he'd be cutting square corners on his taxes?
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You got facts to support that BS or are you gonna continue lying and tonguing Glenn Becks balls tea-bagger?
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You got facts to support that BS or are you gonna continue lying and tonguing Glenn Becks balls tea-bagger? bizarro, I think QE is counting every public statement by Obama as a “gaffe”.
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So sad … maybe your mom is ready for her tonguing?
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