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Origin of wooden tongue
An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
Words nearby wooden tongue
wooden-headed, Wooden Horse, wooden Indian, wooden shoe, wooden spoon, wooden tongue, woodentop, woodenware, wood fern, woodfree, wood frog
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How to use wooden tongue in a sentence
His sled had a wooden tongue in it and it slanted back over the girls' heads.
The Golden Road|Lucy Maud Montgomery
British Dictionary definitions for wooden tongue
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