"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

(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

1. barbarous tongue = barbarzyński język barbarous tongue

I could not talk anything but English, and the girl knew nothing but Greek, or Armenian, or some such barbarous tongue, but we got along very well.
"How well you express yourself in our barbarous tongue, M. le General!"
A slave near the front called out something in a barbarous tongue.
It employs a jangling, barbarous tongue of its own.
I did so, and he instantly, and with every mark of fervour, addressed me a long speech in some unknown and barbarous tongue.
You speak a strange and barbarous tongue, old man, and yet, here is a mystery, for I know it.
He ground his great teeth together, raved, stamped, and swore in barbarous tongues and with barbarous imagery.
Procopius wrote that the Antes and the Slaveni spoke "the same language, an utterly barbarous tongue".
The sound of that barbarous tongue would wilt me on the spot.
Nor is it needful, Allan, since if I caught the meaning of that barbarous tongue you use aright, you have told him already.

2. malicious tongue = złośliwy język malicious tongue

(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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