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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
untongue en · NOUN
Etymology
From un- + tongue.
Meanings
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(nonce-word) Something that is not a tongue but which does something one associates with a tongue.
to stay, dying and composing as the untongue licked him toward oblivion and the tenors sang promisisti.
2005, The Beloit Poetry Journal - Volumes 56-57, page 18:What are you building? she said to him in the same unlanguage, using the same untongue.
2023, Danger Slater, Alex Woodroe, House of Rot, page 33:I see them walking past its world's -end whine knowing this untongue shreds the tender air in perfect meaninglessness.
2013, Simon Jarvis, Night Office:
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untongue en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + tongue.
Meanings
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(obsolete, transitive) To deprive of a tongue, or of voice.
They are the ones who can untongue you, the poet Adler says.
2006, Lisa Zaran, “The Great Ones”, in The Blondes Lay Content, page 68:Mark me, they will untongue you ; decudgel you to a very submissive state of conjugal obedience; and , what is still worse, they will actually bamboozle you —that is to say, unless you deviate your transcendent and subterranean courses.
1870, William Carleton, The Fair of Emyvale, and the Master and Scholar. Tales, Etc, page 56:Especially he ought to untongue it from talking to his prejudice
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):Yet till thine axe untongue me, I'll maintain Ours was a mighty scheme, and that it failed, Its chiefest fault.
1913, Grace Denio Litchfield, Collected Poems, page 212:
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To take one's tongue off of.
What?! Hey! Untongue me!
2018, Dennis Hopeless, John Barber, Doctor Strange Vol. 5:"Well, tell it to untongue me! " Han demanded.
2018, Star Wars: Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel:Unhand me-- er, untongue me, vile monster!
2016, Marvel Comics, Power Pack Classic Vol. 1:
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