double-tongue

American  

[duhb-uhl-tuhng] / ˈdʌb əlˌtʌŋ /

verb (used without object)

Music.

double-tongued, double-tonguing

1. to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.

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double-tongue British  

verb

1. music to play (fast staccato passages) on a wind instrument by rapid obstruction and uncovering of the air passage through the lips with the tongue Compare single-tongue triple-tongue

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Other Word Forms

• double tonguing
  noun

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

double-tongue double-tongued

We ain't givin' you any double-tongue wag over this——" "I'm not saying you are.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre

A double-tongue miter is made by cutting on the adjoining edges tongues which engage in each other.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

At 12:50, track trumpeter Jay Cohen double-tongued the usual call to arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2020

Some saw an even more sinister subtext to Boies' opening statement and the incorporeal, larger-than-life double-tongued creature he described as luring unwitting followers to his crusade for world domination.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Crow made answer: “It is not my art that deserves to be blamed; but the purposes of double-tongued people are so deceiving, who say one thing and do another.”

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

If Wieland had framed juster notions of moral duty, and of the divine attributes; or if I had been gifted with ordinary equanimity or foresight, the double-tongued deceiver would have been baffled and repelled.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland