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double-tongue
[ duhb-uhl-tuhng ]
verb (used without object)
Music.
double-tongued, double-tonguing.
- to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
double-tongue
verb
- music to play (fast staccato passages) on a wind instrument by rapid obstruction and uncovering of the air passage through the lips with the tongue Compare single-tongue triple-tongue
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Derived Forms
- double tonguing, noun
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Within the week he had presented his family with the "squirrel-face," the "teakettle-spout," the "double-tongue," and one or two minor productions, so they were not entirely unprepared to have him announce that he could make a face like the king of beasts.
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It should belong to The Double-Tongue.
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"The Double-Tongue has run to hole like a fox."
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A double-tongue miter is made by cutting on the adjoining edges tongues which engage in each other.
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We ain't givin' you any double-tongue wag over this——" "I'm not saying you are.
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