From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], equivalent to [en]. Compare [ang].
*** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech ( _generally with an unfavourable connotation_ ).
2. * 1608 , Philip Woodward, _Bels Trial Examined,_ Doai, Preface, <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A73451.0001.001 </sup>
3. *: Seeing then he is now so mute, that before was so TONGUY [...]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1844 | author=w:Charles Dickens | title=w:Martin Chuzzlewit | location=London | publisher=Chapman and Hall | section=Chapter , p. 267 | url=https://archive.org/details/adventuresoflife00dickrich/page/266/mode/1up?q=%22tongue-y%22
|passage=“You air a TONGUE-Y person, Gen’ral. For you talk too much, and
that’s a fact,” said Scadder. “You speak a-larmingly well in public, but you
didn’t ought to go ahead so fast in private. Now!”}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1921 | author=w:Leila Amos Pendleton | chapter=The Foolish and the Wise: Sallie Runner Is Introduced to Socrates | editor=Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman | title=The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women | location=New Brunswick, NJ | publisher=Rutgers University Press | page=163 | url=https://archive.org/details/sleeperwakesharl00knop/page/163/mode/1up?q=tonguey
|passage=“[...] He had many friends who loved him truly and they tried to
persuade him to escape, but by unanswerable arguments he proved to them how
wrong they were.” ¶ “Humph!” grunted Sallie. “ TONGUEY to de last! An’ in de
wrong way to de wrong ones.”}}
1. [en] Using many words; containing grandiloquent expression s; marked by rhetorical elegance ( _generally with an unfavourable connotation_ ).
2. * 1885 , J. H. Battle, _Kentucky: A History of the State,_ Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, “Biographical Sketches,” p. [nbsp] 839, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/cu31924052729112/page/839/mode/1up?q=tonguy </sup>
3. *: [...] personal abuse and TONGUY sarcasm are not elements of success in law practice.
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1896 | author= [Francis Hopkinson Smith] | title=w:Tom Grogan | location=New York | publisher=Grosset & Dunlap | section=Chapter , p. 186 | url=https://archive.org/details/grogantom00smitrich/page/186/mode/1up?q=tonguey
|passage=“I have listened,” he said, “to the talk that Justice Rowan has given
us. It’s very fine and TONGUEY, but it smothers up the facts. [...]”}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1916 | author=Kate Stephens | chapter=Our Country Newspaper: The Genesis of Its Spirit | title=Workfellows in Social Progression | location=New York | publisher=Sturgis & Walton | page=45 | url=https://archive.org/details/workfellowsinsoc00steprich/page/45/mode/1up?q=tonguey
|passage=those points especially warming to TONGUEY gossip—the neighboring
tavern and country-store}}
1. [en] Manifested by fluent or voluble speech.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1887 | author=w:Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman | chapter=The Bar Light-House | title=A Humble Romance, and Other Stories | url=https://archive.org/details/humbleromance00freerich/page/182/mode/1up?q=tonguey | page=182 | publisher=Harper & Brothers | location=New York
|passage=[...] even his TONGUEY confidence and ingenuousness could glean but
little satisfaction from his interviews with the rheumatic and unbelieving old
woman.}}
1. Involving the tongue .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1918 | author=F. Roney Weir | title=Merry Andrew | location=Boston | publisher=Small, Maynard | chapter=13 | page=187 | url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924014518264/page/n200/mode/1up?q=tonguey
|passage=Wully seated himself upon the corner of the kitchen table, from
beneath which appeared a dog’s welcoming nose accompanied by a TONGUEY,
tooth-trimmed grin.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1988 | author=w:Hanif Kureishi | title=w:Sammy and Rosie Get Laid | location=London | publisher=Faber and Faber | page=8 | url=https://archive.org/details/sammyrosiegetlai0000kure_w7s9/page/8/mode/1up?q=tonguey
|passage=They take each other’s hands and kiss goodbye, a longish TONGUEY kiss
[...]}}
1. Resembling a tongue.
2. * 1882 , [Albert Kellogg] , _Forest Trees of California,_ Sacramento: J.D. Young, “The Noble Silver Fir,” p. [nbsp] 34, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/forestca00kell/page/34/mode/1up?q=tonguey </sup>
3. *: These TONGUEY bract s or scaly appendages [...] never become shorter than the proper cone scales, or so as to be hid from outside view.
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1903 | author=Fred Max | title=Soul-Return | location=Boston | publisher=E.H. Bacon | chapter=1 | page=21 | url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924031207594/page/n22/mode/1up?q=tonguey
|passage=[...] the brain-aura [...] crowns the head after the manner of the
TONGUEY flames of a torch.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2003 | author=w:Toby Litt | title=w:Finding Myself | url=https://archive.org/details/findingmyself0000litt_p7n6/page/158/mode/1up?q=tonguey | page=158 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2004
|passage=Fleur leans back against the kitchen table, letting her face be
licked by the TONGUEY vapour of her coffee-cup.}}
**** See also
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] An act or an instance of kiss ing that involve s the use of one's tongue .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1992 | author=w:Louis Nowra | title= [Cosi (film)] | location=Sydney | publisher=Currency Press | year_published=1994 | section=act 2, scene 5 | page=86 | url=https://archive.org/details/cosi0000nowr/page/86/mode/1up?q=tonguey
|passage=Give me a kiss. No, open your mouth, I want a TONGUEY.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2004 | author=w:Ben Elton | title=w:Past Mortem | url=https://archive.org/details/pastmortem0000elto/page/200/mode/1up?q=tonguey | chapter=20 | page=200 | publisher=Bantam | location=London
|passage=He walked her to her house and received one last lingering Christmas
TONGUEY under the mistletoe that hung above the door.}}