# tonguey

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Tending to talk a lot; fluent or voluble in speech (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
2. Using many words; containing grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
3. Manifested by fluent or voluble speech.
4. Involving the tongue.
5. Resembling a tongue.

## Etymology
From Middle English tungy, tungi, equivalent to tongue + -y. Compare Old English tynġe (“fluent, eloquent, skillful”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tonguey