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

Within the week he had presented his family with the "squirrel-face," the "teakettle-spout," the "double-tongue," and one or two minor productions, so they were not entirely unprepared to have him announce that he could make a face like the king of beasts.

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It should belong to The Double-Tongue.

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"The Double-Tongue has run to hole like a fox."

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

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

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