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

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

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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

From Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton

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

From Virtue's blissful paths away The double-tongued are sure to stray; Good is a forth-right journey still, And mazy paths but lead to ill.

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

His “Nay, nay,” and “Yea, yea,” will outlast and outshine their double-tongued prevarication and flattery.

From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate

The Kansas-Nebraska act was a double-tongued statute, and the Cincinnati platform a Janus-faced banner.

From Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John George Nicolay