ˈlong-tongue
A person or thing with a ‘long tongue’.
1. a. A small bird of the Cape of Good Hope. ? Obs. b. dial. The wryneck.
| 1731 Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 155 There is a little bird at the Cape for which I know no other name than what the Cape Europeans give it, which is Long Tongue. 1772–84 Cook Voy. (1790) III. 937 The long-tongue is about the size of a bull-finch, and his tongue is not only very long, but said to be as hard as iron. 1837 Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds III. 100 The Wryneck. Emmet-hunter. Long-tongue. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 592/2 The Wryneck is the..Long-Tongue..of the modern British. |
2. A chatterer, blab.
| 1847 in Halliwell. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Long-tongue, (1) a tale-bearer. |