Meaning

2 senses
  1. (informal, not comparable, rare)Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.

  2. (informal, not comparable, rare)Pertaining or relating to languages; lingual, linguistic.

Origin

From tongue + -ly (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense “appearing like or

From tongue + -ly (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense “appearing like or resembling [what is denoted by the noun]”).

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Word family

1 related words
Relatedtonguey

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tonguely — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto