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English
Noun
tongue-work (uncountable)
- (archaic) Babble, chatter; conversation.
1857, George Borrow, Romany Rye:I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already.
1866, George Eliot , chapter XX, in Felix Holt, the Radical In Three Volumes">…], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 78:If a man takes to tongue-work it's all over with him. 'Everything's wrong,' says he. That's a big text. But does he want to make everything right? Not he. He'd lose his text.