Meaning of tongue-work | Babel Free

Definitions

Babble, chatter; conversation.

archaic, uncountable

Examples

“I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already.”

“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.”

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