Usually means: Difficulty speaking due to nerves.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tongue tied: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tongue-tied: Merriam-Webster
  3. tongue-tied: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tongue-tied: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tongue-tied, tongue-tied: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tongue-tied: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tongue-Tied, Tongue-tied, tongue-tied: Wordnik
  8. tongue-tied: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tongue-tied: Wiktionary
  10. tongue-tied: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tongue-tied: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tongue-tied: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tongue-tied, tongue tied: Dictionary.com
  14. tongue-tied: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tongue-Tied (short story collection), Tongue Tied (Faber Drive song), Tongue Tied (Grouplove song), Tongue Tied (song), Tongue tied (disambiguation), Tongue tied: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tongue-tied: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tongue-tied: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tongue-tied: Rhymezone
  19. Tongue-tied: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tongue-tied: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tongue-tied: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tongue-tied: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tongue-tied: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. tongue-tied: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tongue-tied: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tongue-tied: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tongue-tied: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tongue-tied: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Tongue tied)

▸ noun:  Tongue tied refers to ankyloglossia, a medical condition in which the lingual frenulum is unusually short, causing restricted movement of the tongue.


Opposite:
glib, loquacious, voluble, talkative

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Opposite:
glib, loquacious, voluble, talkative




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