Etymology

tonguy

T1O1N1G2U1Y4
Middle English tungy
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromtungy
  2. English todaytonguy

From Middle English tungy, equivalent to tongue + -y.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishtungy all →

tonguey

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.