"tongue" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tongue sustantivo

sustantivo + tongue

Kolokacji: 16

mother tongue • tongue of flame • silver tongue • tongue of fire • beef tongue • ...

tongue + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 11

Mother tongue language • tongue depressor • tongue twister • tongue tip • Tongue River • ...

tongue + verbo

Kolokacji: 83

tongue licks • tongue feels • tongue lolls • tongue flicks • tongue wagging • ...

verbo + tongue

Kolokacji: 59

hold one's tongue • bite one's tongue • swell of tongue • stick out one's tongue • use one's tongue • click one's tongue • ...

adjetivo + tongue

Kolokacji: 93

native tongue • sharp tongue • long tongue • pink tongue • foreign tongue • strange tongue • red tongue • common tongue • ...

frequent collocations

Kolokacji: 12

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 20

(1) native, foreign, strange, unknown, alien, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(2) sharp, rough, guttural, harsh, tart, ...

Kolokacji: 12

(3) long, little, small, tiny, large, ...

Kolokacji: 9

(4) pink, red, blue, purple, golden, ...

Kolokacji: 10

(5) common, vulgar, respective

Kolokacji: 3

(6) ancient, old, pointed

Kolokacji: 3

(7) human, numb

Kolokacji: 2

(8) black, wicked, evil, foul, filthy, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(9) civil, ancestral

Kolokacji: 2

(10) swollen, warm, hot, fiery, Loving, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(11) dry, sticky, parched, moist

Kolokacji: 4

(12) wet, loose, local, Indian, stiff

Kolokacji: 5

1. wet tongue = mokry język wet tongue

2. loose tongue = skłonność do rozpowiadania o sprawach prywatnych\, poufnych loose tongue

"For a man who was a master spy during the war, my brother has a loose tongue."
And a loose tongue as well, it would seem.
But that in itself didn't make him potentially useful-he was getting old, and he had a loose tongue.
"Let's see if we can't find a few loose tongues."
A night in a cell was likely to make Gubber's tongue quite loose.
"It never occurred to me that you would have a loose tongue," he added.
And the bird's loose tongue could lead police straight to their lair.
Meg looked as though she was regretting her loose tongue.
It would be as well to remember that we are all the object of loose tongues.
"This room is full of folk with acute hearing and loose tongues."

3. local tongue = miejscowy język local tongue

4. Indian tongue = Indyjski język Indian tongue

5. stiff tongue = sztywny język stiff tongue

(13) thick, glib, narrow, thin

Kolokacji: 4

(14) quick, clever, agile, prehensile, nimble

Kolokacji: 5

(15) different, original, new

Kolokacji: 3

(16) smooth, wooden, hairy, flickering

Kolokacji: 4

(17) silent, eloquent

Kolokacji: 2

(18) barbarous, malicious

Kolokacji: 2

(19) German, Germanic

Kolokacji: 2

(20) African, Slavic

Kolokacji: 2

preposición + tongue

Kolokacji: 18

of one's tongue • in one's tongue • with one's tongue • on one's tongue • to one's tongue • ...

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