"tongue-work" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1857, George Borrow, Romany Rye:",
          "text": "I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already.",
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          "ref": "1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XX, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 78:",
          "text": "If a man takes to tongue-work it's all over with him. 'Everything's wrong,' says he. That's a big text. But does he want to make everything right? Not he. He'd lose his text.",
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        "Babble, chatter; conversation."
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        "(archaic) Babble, chatter; conversation."
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