tonguing

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Definitions

verb

On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).“Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.”
To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.“a soil horizon that tongues into clay”
To join by means of a tongue and groove.“to tongue boards together”

noun

A licking or lapping with the tongue.
A technique used with wind instruments to enunciate different notes using the tongue on the reed or mouthpiece.

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Synonyms

lingua glossa spit knife clapper natural language flutter tonguage licking tonguefuck tongue bath lick tonguey tonguejob tongue-lolling tongue-lashing

Rhymes

whinging dunging dinging bunging ginging tinging blunging kinging chung hung fung hung

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