Meaning of tongue-boring | Babel Free

Definitions

A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue.

countable, historical, uncountable

Examples

“Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders.”

CEFR level