ROLL / SLIP / TRIP OFF THE TONGUE

Meaning of ROLL / SLIP / TRIP OFF THE TONGUE in English

to be easy to say or pronounce :

It's not a name that exactly trips off the tongue, is it?

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

OFF
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TONGUE — Muscular organ on the floor of the mouth . It is important in motions of eating, drinking, and swallowing, and …
Английский словарь Британика
TRIP
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TONGUE — I. ˈtəŋ noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English tunge, from Old English; akin to Old High …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SLIP — I. ˈslip verb ( slipped or archaic slipt ˈslipt ; slipped or archaic slipt ; slipping ; slips ) Etymology: …
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ROLL
Webster's New International English Dictionary
OFF
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TRIP — trip 1 /trip/ , n. , v. , tripped, tripping . n. 1. a journey or voyage: to win a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TONGUE — — tongueless , adj. — tonguelike , adj. /tung/ , n. , v. tongued, tonguing . n. 1. Anat. the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SLIP
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ROLL — — rollable , adj. /rohl/ , v.i. 1. to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OFF — /awf, of/ , adv. 1. so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TONGUE — I. ˈtəŋ noun Etymology: Middle English tunge, from Old English; akin to Old High German zunga tongue, Latin lingua Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SLIP — I. ˈslip verb ( slipped ; slip·ping ) Etymology: Middle English slippen, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; akin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ROLL — I. ˈrōl noun Etymology: Middle English rolle, from Anglo-French roule, rolle, from Medieval Latin rolla, alteration of rotula, from Latin, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
OFF — I. ˈȯf adverb Etymology: Middle English of, from Old English — more at of Date: before 12th century 1. a. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TRIP — noun a flock of widgeons. 2. trip ·noun a troop of men; a host. 3. trip ·noun a small piece; …
Webster English vocab
TONGUE — noun any small sole. 2. tongue ·noun the clapper of a bell. 3. tongue ·noun ·same·as reed, ·noun, 5. 4. …
Webster English vocab
SLIP
Webster English vocab
ROLL
Webster English vocab
OFF — adv denoting opposition or negation. 2. off ·interj away; begone; a command to depart. 3. off ·adv in a …
Webster English vocab
TONGUE — [tongue] n [ME tunge, fr. OE; akin to OHG zunga tongue, L lingua] (bef. 12c) 1 a: a fleshy movable …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SLIP — [slip] vb slipped ; slip.ping [ME slippen, fr. MD or MLG; akin to MHG slipfen to slide, OHG slifan to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TONGUE — in most vertebrates, an organ, capable of various muscular movements, located on the floor of the mouth. In some animals …
Britannica English vocabulary
TRIP — / trɪp; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. a journey to a place and back again, especially a …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TONGUE — / tʌŋ; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] the soft part in the mouth that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SLIP — / slɪp; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( -pp- ) SLIDE / FALL 1. [ v ] slip …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ROLL — / rəʊl; NAmE roʊl/ noun , verb ■ noun OF PAPER / CLOTH, etc. 1. [ C ] roll (of …
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OFF — / ɒf; NAmE ɔːf; ɑːf/ adverb , preposition , adjective , noun , verb ■ adverb HELP NOTE : For …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TRIP — I. trip 1 S2 W2 /trɪp/ BrE AmE noun 1 . [countable] a visit to a place that involves a …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TONGUE — I. tongue 1 S3 W3 /tʌŋ/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: tunge ] 1 . MOUTH …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SLIP — I. slip 1 S3 W2 /slɪp/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle slipped , present participle slipping …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ROLL
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
OFF — I. off 1 S1 W1 /ɒf $ ɒːf/ BrE AmE adverb , preposition , adjective 1 . away from a …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TONGUE — n. & v. --n. 1 the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth used in tasting, licking, and swallowing, and (in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SLIP — v. & n. --v. (slipped, slipping) 1 intr. slide unintentionally esp. for a short distance; lose one's footing or balance …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ROLL — v. & n. --v. 1 a intr. move or go in some direction by turning over and over on an …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
OFF — adv., prep., adj., & n. --adv. 1 away; at or to a distance (drove off; is three miles off). 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TONGUE — n. & v. n. 1 the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth used in tasting, licking, and swallowing, and (in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SLIP — v. & n. v. (slipped, slipping) 1 intr. slide unintentionally esp. for a short distance; lose one's footing or balance …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ROLL — v. & n. v. 1 a intr. move or go in some direction by turning over and over on an …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
OFF — adv., prep., adj., & n. adv. 1 away; at or to a distance (drove off; is three miles off). 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TONGUE — n. & v. --n. 1. the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth used in tasting, licking, and swallowing, and (in …
Oxford English vocab
SLIP — 1. v. & n. --v. (slipped, slipping) 1. intr. slide unintentionally esp. for a short distance; lose one's footing or …
Oxford English vocab
ROLL — v. & n. --v. 1. a intr. move or go in some direction by turning over and over on an …
Oxford English vocab
OFF — adv., prep., adj., & n. --adv. 1. away; at or to a distance (drove off; is three miles off). 2 …
Oxford English vocab
TRIP — ( trips, tripping, tripped) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A trip …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TONGUE — ( tongues) 1. Your tongue is the soft movable part inside your mouth which you use for tasting, eating, and …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SLIP — ( slips, slipping, slipped) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ROLL — ( rolls, rolling, rolled) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. When something …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OFF — The preposition is pronounced /ɒf, AM ɔ:f/. The adverb is pronounced /ɒf, AM ɔ:f/ Frequency: The word is one of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TRIP — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES 30 mile/360 kilometre/2 hour etc round trip ▪ A coachload of supporters made the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TONGUE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES click your tongue (= make a short sound with your tongue to show disapproval …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SLIP — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a scrap/slip of paper (= a small piece ) ▪ He scribbled Pamela’s address …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ROLL
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ROLL — (MOVE) [verb] - to (cause to) move or move along by turning over and over or from side to sideThe …
Cambridge English vocab
TONGUE — n. Muscular organ on the floor of the mouth . It is important in motions of eating, drinking, and swallowing, …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
ROLL
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
TONGUE — See: AT THE TIP OF ONE'S TONGUE, CAT GET ONE'S TONGUE, HOLD ONE'S TONGUE, KEEP A CIVIL TONGUE IN ONE'S …
Slang English vocab
TONGUE — n. long tongue tongue lash tongue tied tongue walk
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
OFF — adj. sup off sup off or up back off blow off bring off buck off bug off bump off burn …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
SLIP — n. 25B6; verb she slipped on the ice : SLIDE, skid, slither, glide; fall (over), lose one's balance, tumble. the …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
ROLL — n. 25B6; verb the bottle rolled down the table : BOWL, turn over and over, spin, rotate. waiters rolled in …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
TRIP — n. 1 stumble, slip, blunder, false step, misstep, fall He sprained his ankle in that trip on the stair 2 …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab

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