"tonguetip" meaning in English

See tonguetip in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: tonguetips [plural]
Etymology: tongue + tip Etymology templates: {{com|en|tongue|tip}} tongue + tip Head templates: {{en-noun}} tonguetip (plural tonguetips)
  1. The tip of the tongue.
    Sense id: en-tonguetip-en-noun-FH3BWKio Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tongue",
        "3": "tip"
      },
      "expansion": "tongue + tip",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "tongue + tip",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tonguetips",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tonguetip (plural tonguetips)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974, Journal of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (page 116)",
          "text": "[…] is produced by a stricture of complete closure involving the upper teeth and the tonguetip. The velum is raised and the vocal folds are not in vibration."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The tip of the tongue."
      ],
      "id": "en-tonguetip-en-noun-FH3BWKio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tonguetip"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tongue",
        "3": "tip"
      },
      "expansion": "tongue + tip",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "tongue + tip",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tonguetips",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tonguetip (plural tonguetips)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974, Journal of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (page 116)",
          "text": "[…] is produced by a stricture of complete closure involving the upper teeth and the tonguetip. The velum is raised and the vocal folds are not in vibration."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The tip of the tongue."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tonguetip"
}

Download raw JSONL data for tonguetip meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-07-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-01 using wiktextract (45c4a21 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.