triple-tongue

American  

[trip-uhl-tuhng] / ˈtrɪp əlˌtʌŋ /

verb (used without object)

Music.

triple-tongued, triple-tonguing

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

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triple-tongue British  

verb

1. music to play (very quick staccato passages of notes grouped in threes) on a wind instrument by a combination of single- and double-tonguing Compare single-tongue double-tongue

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Other Word Forms

• triple tonguing
  noun

Etymology

Origin of triple-tongue

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

triple-tongue triple-tongued triple-tonguing

He is happy strutting before any good hot band where he can introduce himself as "The Reverend Satchel Mouth" and proceed to triple-tongue a cornet at incredible speed.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is a triple-tongued double dealer, a glib Vesuvius of fantasy and falsehood, a perpetual-emotion machine with nary an honest feeling.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the first guest on a new Canadian TV show, triple-tongued Producer David Susskind, 41, lost no time unsettling citizens on both sides of the border.

From Time Magazine Archive

A more sophisticated clientele moves beyond the midway to seek out and applaud Dr. Nabokov, the butterfly chaser, dealer in anagrammatical gimcracks, triple-tongued punster, animator of Doppelgänger, shuffler of similes.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he was all afoot his scaled head, spike-crowned and triple-tongued, rose higher than the broken tower’s height, and his taloned forefeet rested on the rubble of the town below.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

These two practical considerations expose the situation sufficiently: we may now face the triple-tongued dragon and exhibit how a single whiff of common sense will tumble all his three heads in the dust.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges

Their orchestra also featured crisp saxophones and triple-tonguing trumpets, a legacy of the Big Band era.

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2015