10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TONGUESTER»
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tonguester in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Tennyson: Selected Poetry
... days, VIII When Dives loathed the times, and paced his land Infear of worse,x
30 And sanguine Lazarus felta vacanthand Fill withhis purse. IX For lowly minds
were madden«d to the height By tonguester tricks, And once ¥ I well remember
that.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Professor Norman Page, Norman Page, 2013
2
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
tongue (n, hence v), whence -tongued, tongueless, tongues, tongulng, tonguester
; prob tang (a snake's or a knife's or a flavour's), whence the now dial 'to ta '; perh
tongs. 1. The best starting-point is at L lirgrua, the tongue, whence OF-F langue ...
O surely with terrible wrath will the thunder-voiced monarch be filled, When he
sees his opponent beside him, the tonguester, the artifice-skilled, Stand, whetting
his tusks for the fight! O surely, his eyes rolling-fell Will with terrible madness be ...
4
Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals)
... not N.E.D.); tapster;teamster; throwster; tipster;tonguester (Tennyson, p. 438);
trickster; truckster(truck farmer, U.S.);whipster (Swift, m.); whitster (Shakespeare,
Merry Wives, III.3.14). A word which is notusually mentioned inthis connexion, but
...
5
Complete Works of Aristophanes
Chorus O surely with terrible wrath will the thunder-voiced monarch be filled,
When he sees his opponent beside him, the tonguester, the artifice-skilled, Stand
, whetting his tusks for the fight! O surely, his eyes rolling-fell Will with terrible ...
6
The Birds and Other Plays
O surely with terrible wrath will the thunder-voiced monarch be filled, When he
sees his opponent beside him, the tonguester, the artifice-skilled, Stand, whetting
his tusks for the fight! O surely, his eyes rolling-fell Will with terrible madness be ...
7
Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think
By the exercise of common sense, born into everyone, he can attain anything
upon this island, our home, the common property and heritage of all." The
tonguester, having gained a great deal of interest among the people, now "
proved" his ...
8
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
1696) and tonguester ; tonguepowder = fluency of phrase ; tongueshot = as far as
the voice will reach:cf1 earshot '; tonguesore = an evil tongue, illspeaking ;
tonguevaliant = (i) free of talk : hence (2) Tongue. 156 Tongue. brave in word but
...
9
Sport and the Making of Britain
The 'tonguester' politicians were clearly neither competent nor trustworthy. It was
this that particularly stung Gladstone, who had only recently secured the peerage
for Tennyson, and he replied publicly with a catalogue of the advances that ...
You'd pull, and I'd have to take the bus home and listen sadly to Barry Manilow
songs and practise French-kissing my pillow, imagining it was the Tonguester.' '
Don't be silly, Tamsin,' I say, feeling very delighted indeed at this generous ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TONGUESTER»
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tonguester is used in the context of the following news items.
Jennifer Lopez Digs Deep for 'Booty'
If she's trying to challenge “twerk” master Miley Cyrus in the midst of the butt crisis war, who knows what the tonguester will come out with next. Lopez recently ... «Breitbart News, Sep 14»
Calling all tonguesters: Refresh your gossip with old words
Mark Peters, the genius behind the blog Wordlustitude in addition to being a Contributing Editor for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, a language columnist for ... «OUPblog, Mar 08»
