TONGUED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tongued mean? 

• TONGUED (adjective)
  The adjective TONGUED has 2 senses:

1. provided with or resembling a tongue; often used in combination

2. having a manner of speaking as specified; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: TONGUED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TONGUED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided with or resembling a tongue; often used in combination

Context example:

long-tongued

Similar:

tonguelike (resembling a tongue in form or function)

Antonym:

tongueless (lacking a tongue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a manner of speaking as specified; often used in combination

Context example:

sharp-tongued

Similar:

speaking (capable of or involving speech or speaking)

 Context examples 

“Well, sir! Well, sir! And what then, sir?” cried Francis, who appeared to be an irascible, rough-tongued man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Zilla was his wife, and no more bitter-tongued, implacable old squaw dwelt on the Yukon.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Never did choice or dainty ditty of Provence or Languedoc sound more sweetly in the ears than did the rough-tongued Saxon to the six who strained their ears from the blazing keep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man’s rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He could not fail to see that the men with whom he was thrown in contact, rough-tongued, fierce and quarrelsome as they were, were yet of deeper nature and of more service in the world than the ox-eyed brethren who rose and ate and slept from year's end to year's end in their own narrow, stagnant circle of existence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)