Tongue-twister

Definition

tongue /tʌŋ/ n ၁။ [C] လွ်ာ။ ❍ THROAT, TOOTH ❍ BODY ၂။ [U, C] လွ်ာ။ sliced ox tongue. ၃။ [C] ( fml or rhet ) စကား။ ဘာသာ။ He speaks English, but his native tongue is German. ❍ speak in tongues (ie in strange or unknown languages). See also MOTHER TONGUE ၄။ [C usu sing ] ႏႈတ္။ အာ။ She has a very sharp tongue. ၅။ [C] လွ်ာ။ ၾကက္လွ်ာပံု။ သန္လ်က္ပံု။ a tongue of flame ❍ a narrow tongue of land jutting out into the sea ❍ the tongue of a shoe (ie the piece of leather under the laces). ❍ SHOE ❏ get one's tongue round/ around sth [ IDM ] ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲ အသံထုတ္သည္၊ ဆိုသည္။ ❏ mind/ watch one's tongue [ IDM] မေျပာမိေအာင္ ႏႈတ္ကိုထိန္းသည္။ ❏ put/stick one's tongue out [ IDM] လွ်ာ ထုတ္ျပသည္။ Don't you dare stick your tongue out at me! ❏ roll/ slip/ trip off the tongue [ IDM ] လွ်ာအ႐ိုးမရိွတိုင္း ေျပာသည္။ compliments tripping easily off the tongue. ❏ set tongues wagging [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အားရပါးရ အတင္းေျပာရန္ စေပးသည္။ Their affair has really set tongues wagging. ❏ - tongued (forming compound adjs ) ႏႈတ္… ေသာ။ အေျပာ၊ အာ…ေသာ။ sharp- tongued ❍ evil-tongued. ❏ tongue-in-cheek adj ေထ့ေသာ။ ေငါ့ေသာ။ ျပက္လံုးထုတ္ ေသာ။ tongue-in-cheek remarks. ❏ tongue-tied adj အာေစးထည့္ထားေသာ။ ❏ tongue-twister n လွ်ာခလုတ္တိုက္စကား။ သာဓက။ ။ She sells sea shells on the seashore. ❏ with (one's) tongue in one's cheek [ IDM ] ခပ္ေထ့ေထ့။ ေငါ့ေတာ့ေတာ့။ မထိတထိ။ write/ joke with tongue in cheek.

Examples

1. I burnt my tongue on the hot coffee.
2. [your native tongue] : English was clearly not his native tongue.
3. [a foreign tongue] : They were speaking in some foreign tongue.
4. [a sharp tongue] : She has a rather sharp tongue.
5. [a silver tongue] : I hope you’ve not allowed yourself to be persuaded by Laura’s silver tongue.
6. [tongue of] : A tongue of flame/fire