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two-tongued

adj

Etymology

From Middle English two-tounged, two tungyd, equivalent to two + tongued. Compare twi-tongued.

  1. inherited from two-tounged

Definitions

  1. Having two tongues

    Having two tongues; double-tongued.

  2. Deceitful

    Deceitful; lying; two-faced.

  3. Possessing the ability to speak two languages

    Possessing the ability to speak two languages; synonym of bilingual.

    • 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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for two-tongued. 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