tongue-tie (redirected from tongue-tying)

tongue-tie (tngt)

n.

Restricted mobility of the tongue resulting from abnormal shortness of the frenum.

tr.v. tongue-tied, tongue-ty·ing, tongue-ties

To make tongue-tied.

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tongue-tie

n

(Medicine / Pathology) a congenital condition in which the tongue has restricted mobility as the result of an abnormally short frenulum

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Verb

1.

tongue-tie - deprive of speech; "When he met his idol, the young man was tongue-tied" deprive - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining