tongue-tie
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See also: tongue tie
English
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Noun
tongue-tie (countable and uncountable, plural tongue-ties)
- (uncountable, medicine) Ankyloglossia, a congenital oral anomaly.
- (countable) A piece of cloth used to tie down a horse's tongue, to facilitate breathing etc.
Translations
oral anomaly — see ankyloglossia
Verb
tongue-tie (third-person singular simple present tongue-ties, present participle tongue-tying, simple past and past participle tongue-tied)
- (transitive) To disconcert or fluster (a person) so that they cannot speak coherently.
- 1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. , London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page ix:
- Marry—as the friendly vapour ascended, how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it! the ligaments, which tongue-tied him, were loosened, and the stammerer proceeded a statist!
Further reading
Ankyloglossia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
