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Webster 1913 Edition
Two-tongued
Two′-tonguedˊ
,Adj.
Double-tongued; deceitful.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Two-tongued
TWO-TONGUED
,Adj.
Definition 2024
two-tongued
two-tongued
English
Alternative forms
- twotongued
Adjective
two-tongued (not comparable)
- Having two tongues; double-tongued.
- (by entension) Deceitful; two-faced.
- Possessing ability to speak two languages; bilingual.
- 1963, Ralph Maud, Entrances to Dylan Thomas' poetry:
- Thomas had used "the bilingual sea" in "Quite Early One Morning" (1945), so that "two-tongued" was a product of a natural piece of wordplay.
- 2006, Sherry Simon, Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City:
- It is through the voice-over (fully bilingual, because, as the narrator announces, this will be an “f...ing Canadian film”) that the narrator demonstrates both the positive and the negative aspects of the two-tongued individual.
- 1963, Ralph Maud, Entrances to Dylan Thomas' poetry: