Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

two-tongued

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.64 in modern English

Syllables: two--tongued
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having two tongues; double-tongued.

adj

Deceitful; lying; two-faced.

adj

Possessing the ability to speak two languages; synonym of bilingual.

Example Sentences

"Thomas had used "the bilingual sea" in "Quite Early One Morning" (1945), so that "two-tongued" was a product of a natural piece of wordplay."
"It is through the voice-over (fully bilingual, because, as the narrator announces, this will be an “f...ing Canadian film”) that the narrator demonstrates both the positive and the negative aspects of the two-tongued individual."

Etymology

From Middle English two-tounged, two tungyd, equivalent to two + tongued. Compare twi-tongued.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: two-tounged

Questions

What does two-tongued mean?: Having two tongues; double-tongued.
Where does two-tongued come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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