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tonguely

adjective /ˈtʌŋli/

  1. Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.

    informal, rare

    [A] meadow / in his own right, all inwardly afire, ten / thousand tonguely shadings painting him / angelic warden of the face of earth.

  2. Pertaining or relating to languages; lingual, linguistic.

    informal, rare

    Women are proverbial for tonguely gifts, and orators do not require very great depth. Like the belle with her chit-chat, it is the tone and manner which do execution.

Where it comes from

From tongue + -ly (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense “appearing like or resembling [what is denoted by the noun]”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tonguely (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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