double-tongue

[ duhb-uhl-tuhng ]

/ ˈdʌb əlˌtʌŋ /

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verb (used without object), dou·ble-tongued, dou·ble-tongu·ing.Music.

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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Words nearby double-tongue

double tap, double-team, doublethink, double time, doubleton, double-tongue, double-tongued, double top, doublet pattern, double-trailer truck, doubletree

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How to use double-tongue in a sentence

And Ollie says, ‘Oh, I see, well, let me have two double vodka martinis.’
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After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
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A few weeks after returning from England, I was trolling the dairy section and came across the Cotswold Double Gloucester.
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Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
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He went on to say that even such double horrors had never kept cops from continuing on.
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“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

British Dictionary definitions for double-tongue

double-tongue

verb -tongues, -tonguing or -tongued

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

Derived forms of double-tongue

double tonguing, noun

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