Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
tongue . - Simplified, and former, spellings of tongue, tongued.
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- noun simplified, and former, spelling of
tongue - noun A
tung tree .
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- noun Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nana himself was a burly, fat-faced rascal with curly mustachioes and a shifty look - what they call a tung admi, * (* Literally, "a tight man".) dressed in more silks and jewels than a French whore, sliding his eyes across Moore and me and whispering behind a plump hand to the woman beside him.
Fiancée 2010
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Nana himself was a burly, fat-faced rascal with curly mustachioes and a shifty look — what they call a tung admi, * (* Literally, "a tight man".) dressed in more silks and jewels than a French whore, sliding his eyes across Moore and me and whispering behind a plump hand to the woman beside him.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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Nana himself was a burly, fat-faced rascal with curly mustachioes and a shifty look - what they call a tung admi, * (* Literally, "a tight man".) dressed in more silks and jewels than a French whore, sliding his eyes across Moore and me and whispering behind a plump hand to the woman beside him.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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It would be unfair to say, as many do, that Mao Tse-tung is not a patriot and a nationalist.
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By 1960, China was experiencing a full-blown depression of staggering proportions, a phenomenon which, according to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung is exclusively reserved for the decadent capitalist world.
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Yung-p'ing-hsien lay over to the right, fifteen li from Ch'u-tung, which is protected from the elements by a bell-shaped hill at the foot of a mountain lit up with gold from the sinking sun, which dipped as I trudged along the uneven zigzag road leading across the plain of peas and beans and winter crops.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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The other is at An-tung, which is important because of its situation on the Yalu River opposite the Korean frontier.
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In some trees, such as tung, cessation of growth and the initiation of rest is caused by the change from long to short day-lengths.
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Siding with Wilson as the controversy gained momentum, a Cambridge University classicist, Sir John Cheke, was equally repulsed by the recent developments: “I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Siding with Wilson as the controversy gained momentum, a Cambridge University classicist, Sir John Cheke, was equally repulsed by the recent developments: “I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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