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(of a person) Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech (generally with an unfavourable connotation)..
1608, Philip Woodward, Bels Trial Examined, Doai, Preface, Seeing then he is now so mute, that before was so tonguy […]
“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!”
“[…] 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.”
1885, J. H. Battle, Kentucky: A History of the State, Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, “Biographical Sketches,” p. 839, […] personal abuse and tonguy sarcasm are not elements of success in law practice.
“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. […]”
those points especially warming to tonguey gossip—the neighboring tavern and country-store
[…] even his tonguey confidence and ingenuousness could glean but little satisfaction from his interviews with the rheumatic and unbelieving old woman.
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.
Use tonguey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tonguey means (of a person) Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech (generally with an unfavourable connotation)..
Common synonyms include garrulous, loquacious, talkative, bombastic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1608, Philip Woodward, Bels Trial Examined, Doai, Preface, Seeing then he is now so mute, that before was so tonguy […]
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