Tonged vs Tongued - What's the difference?
tonged | tongued |
(tong)
An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
* 1998 , Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz (editors), Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity , page 232:
Resembling a tongue
Used in compounds such as sharp-tongued to indicate a particular manner of speaking.
(tongue)
As verbs the difference between tonged and tongued
is that tonged is (tong) while tongued is (tongue).As an adjective tongued is
resembling a tongue.tonged
English
Verb
(head)tong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tange'', from a Germanic root. Cognate to Old Norse ''t?ng'' (modern Icelandic .Noun
(en noun)- these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs' in some lists: in order to make a '''tong''' one needs a '''tong''', and how could the first '''tong''' be made without a ' tong ?
See also
* tongsEtymology 2
From (etyl), .See also
* triad * yakuza ----tongued
English
Adjective
(-)- He's a sharp-tongued boy.