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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tonguetiedadjective

    Having an impediment of speech.

    Etymology: tongue and tie.

    Love, and tonguety’d simplicity,
    In least speak most to my capacity. William Shakespeare.

    They who have short tongues, or are tonguetied, are apt to fall short of the appulse of the tongue to the teeth, and oftner place it on the gums, and say t and d instead of th and dh; as moder for mother. William Holder, Elements of Speech.

    He spar’d the blushes of the tonguety’d dame. Thomas Tickell.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tonguetied in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tonguetied in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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