TONGUE-TIED
ADJECTIVES
1575 ► SHORT-TONGUED tongue-tied, inarticulate, stammering, lisping; also, taciturn, unready in speech
1825 ► TONGUE-TACKIT tongue-tied; having an impediment in speech; dumb, mute → Sc.
1911 ► DEAD FROM THE NECK UP habitually tongue-tied; exceedingly stupid; brainless → sl.
1966 ► MOUTH-BOUND tongue-tied → Amer. dial.
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