TONGUE-TIED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Tongue-tied

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/təŋ-taɪd/ Listen

adjective

Tongue-tied adj.

Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short fraenum.

Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. "Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity."

See images of 'Tongue-tied'

Etymology of 'Tongue-tied'

Click any word on the page to get its definition

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Text size: A A

Share |

"Tongue-tied" Quotes from Famous Books

... the soldiers saluted, tongue-tied and embarrassed, scuffling, and prodding one another's ribs in an attempt to urge a spokesman forward, while General Washington gazed down at them ...

— The Junior Classics • Various

Read full book for free!

... seen it? You really should.' But this elicited even less response. Fenwick glared at him—apparently tongue-tied. Then Madame de Pastourelles and her neighbour talked to each other, endeavouring to draw in the stranger. In vain. They fell back, naturally, into the talk of intimates, implying a thousand common memories and experiences; and Fenwick found ...

— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward

Read full book for free!

... have fed him well, and his food has done him good. He is a hundred per cent better than when he came; but he is still surly and tongue-tied. He says nothing. He is not known in the neighbourhood. I have directed hand-bills to be circulated, and placards to be posted in the villages. If he is not owned within a week, he must be given to the parish-officers. I can't help thinking that he ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843 • Various

Read full book for free!

... acquaintances, and he 's always pleasant and civil: he couldn't be anything else; but he wastes mighty little time on me. I don't blame him for preferring other girls' society. He would show very little taste if he did not enjoy Ella Perry's company better than that of a tongue-tied thing like me. She is a thousand times prettier and wittier and more graceful ...

— A Love Story Reversed - 1898 • Edward Bellamy

Read full book for free!

... the conclusion that I was in love with her. The instant, however, that I arrived at that result my careless, happy mood vanished, a mist seemed to arise before me which concealed even her eyes and smile, and, blushing hotly, I became tongue-tied ...

— Youth • Leo Tolstoy

Read full book for free!

More quotes...