Meaning of tonguely | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
   informal, not-comparable, rare
2. Pertaining or relating to languages; lingual, linguistic.
   informal, not-comparable, rare

Examples

“[A] meadow / in his own right, all inwardly afire, ten / thousand tonguely shadings painting him / angelic warden of the face of earth.”

“However simple this basic recipe for tonguely delight seems, many men mess it up in gender-specific ways.”

“A quick dash back to the bed. A tonguely examination of her dental work. A frantic clutching between her legs.”

“"Lo-lee-ta." Our palatal journey, our physical introduction, our tonguely tour of her body in all its divisibility, takes us to her complete sundering: the phonemes have become, as indeed they ought to be as the true bearers of signification, whole in themselves.”

“Language must be further defined through language, more tonguely flexing, more mobilized spittle, more swirls of ink.”

“Women are proverbial for tonguely gifts, and orators do not require very great depth. Like the belle with her chit-chat, it is the tone and manner which do execution.”

“Only the silence of the spirit in which Thou is addressed can liberate Thou, as [Martin] Buber says, out of the "pre-tonguely," pre-speech-formed It-world.”

“His English was and is excellent, just like his French and Spanish. "Few men share this man's tonguely talent for languages!" auctioned Qaddafi [i.e., Muammar Gaddafi] in a speech of praise to your father when he was delegated Libya's official photo prize recently.”

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