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Origin of wooden tongue
An Americanism dating back to 1910â15
Words nearby wooden tongue
wooden-headed,
Wooden Horse,
wooden Indian,
wooden shoe,
wooden spoon,
wooden tongue,
woodentop,
woodenware,
wood fern,
woodfree,
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How to use wooden tongue in a sentence
After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
Even when he opens up, the sentences are wooden, the scenes sucked dry of emotion.
Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
Its beautifully aged wooden exterior houses traditional floor seating and beautiful gardens typical of the area.
The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.
âPerhaps you do not speak my language,â she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.
British Dictionary definitions for wooden tongue
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