Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tongue-lash

simple past tense and past participle of tongue-lash

Known but not quite remembered.

(idiomatic) To refrain from talking about something.

(idiomatic) To forcibly prevent oneself from speaking, especially in order to avoid saying something inappropriate or likely to cause a dispute.

Any of several species of Australian skinks in the genus Tiliqua.

(linguistics, often attributive) An articulation involving retraction of the tongue root.

(idiomatic) To speak deceptively; to be duplicitous or untruthful.

plural of blue-tongue lizard

(idiomatic, of words, speech, etc.) To proceed into oral expression in a manner which is fluent, appealing, or glib.