Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fluent, or voluble in speech; loquacious; garrulous.

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  • adjective Fluent or voluble in speech; loquacious; garrulous.

Etymologies

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From Middle English tungy, equivalent to tongue +‎ -y. Compare Old English tynge ("fluent, eloquent, skillful").

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Examples

  • She planted a hard, tonguey kiss on his resistant lips.

    Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • She planted a hard, tonguey kiss on his resistant lips.

    Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • 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.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • 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.

    The Evil of Navelgazing 2006

  • 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 Various

  • 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.

    The American Baron James De Mille

  • 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.

    Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

  • 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.

    Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

  • There was, indeed, only one woman who talked because she was, as Mr. Kronborg said, "tonguey."

    The song of the lark 1915

  • There was, indeed, only one woman who talked because she was, as Mr. Kronborg said, "tonguey."

    The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910

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