Tonguing

Verb

Definitions

1.Verbpresent participle and gerund of tongue

2.NounA licking or lapping with the tongue.

3.NounA technique used with wind instruments to enunciate different notes using the tongue on the reed or mouthpiece.

4.Nounflensing, cutting off strips of blubber in the butchering of a whale.

5.NounFrench kissing

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