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adjective

Tongue-tied adj.

Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short fraenum.

Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. "Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity."

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Etymology of 'Tongue-tied'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tongue-tied" Quotes from Famous Books

... constraint kept him tongue-tied. The prize was his; the silence, the emptiness, the night, gave him what his sword had earned. He trembled but dared not put out his hand. What was he—good Lord!— to touch so rare a thing? He hardly might look at her. The moon showed him a light muffled figure swaying to the rhythm of the march, ...

— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett

... be not moved! They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. Go you down that way towards the Capitol; This way will I. Disrobe the images, 65 If you do find ...

— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty

... not to seem curious about Bud's past. They even refrained from manifesting too much interest in the musical instruments until Bud himself took them out of their cases that evening and began tuning them. Then the half-baked, tongue-tied fellow came over ...

— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower

... was sitting in my house, late, lone: Dreary, weary with the long day's work: Head of me, heart of me, stupid as a stone: Tongue-tied now, now blaspheming like a Turk; When, in a moment, just a knock, call, cry, Half a pang and all a rapture, there again were we!— "What, and is it really you again?" quoth I: "I again, what else did ...

— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps

... man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs. Nor should you hate a man who has a weakness for telling falsehoods. This, too, is an affliction, like stuttering or being lame. Say to yourself, ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

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