tonguely

adj

/ˈtʌŋli/US

Etymology

From tongue + -ly (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense “appearing like or resembling [what is denoted by the noun]”).

1
Of or pertaining to the tongue
Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
- [A] meadow / in his own right, all inwardly afire, ten / thousand tonguely shadings painting him / angelic warden of the face of earth.
- However simple this basic recipe for tonguely delight seems, many men mess it up in gender-specific ways.
- A quick dash back to the bed. A tonguely examination of her dental work. A frantic clutching between her legs.
2
Pertaining or relating to languages
Pertaining or relating to languages; lingual, linguistic.
- Women are proverbial for tonguely gifts, and orators do not require very great depth. Like the belle with her chit-chat, it is the tone and manner which do execution.
- Only the silence of the spirit in which Thou is addressed can liberate Thou, as [Martin] Buber says, out of the "pre-tonguely," pre-speech-formed It-world.
3
In terms of or with the tongue
In terms of or with the tongue; lingually.
- How can such a head not tempt him tonguely? And so he tastes it; […]
- "How's it going Harold?", gravelled masculinely from a few tables away. "Yeah, not bad mate", as my rested pen raises brows that in turn tonguely prime lips for conversing.

No curated loop yet for tonguely. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA