English
Noun
en-noun
- alternative spelling of|tongue
Usage notes
Today tounge is commonly regarded as a misspelling.1
Quotations
1380, w:John Wycliffe|John Wyclif, English works (1880 edition by the Early English Text Society)
:He schal make his tounge cleue faste to þe roof of his mouþ.
1536, Register of Riches, in Edward Ledwich, Antiquitates Sarisburienses; or, the history and antiquities of old and new Sarum (1771)
:Having ... two white Leopards and two dragons facing them as going to engage, their tounges are done in curiousest wyse.
1562, John Heywood, Woorkes. A dialogue conteynyng prouerbes and epigrammes
:Thy tounge runth before thy wit.
1990, Phyllis Fichtelman Nentwich, Intravenous Therapy
:Rough, dry tounge
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