Tung definition

1790, Noah Webster, “The Founders' Constitution Vol 1, Chap 15, Doc 44”, Univ. of Chicago, accessed on 2012-09-29.

… ever exposed to their envy, and the tung of slander …

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1832, Noah Webster, Edmund Henry Barker, A Dictionary of the English Language, edition Digitized, Black and Young, published 2010, page 542.

Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung.

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1848, Jonathan Morgan, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, edition Digitized, SH Colesworthy, published 2008, page 215.

… words to be spoken with the understanding, that I may teach others also, than myriads of words, in a tung. ... In the law, it hath been written, That, with other tungs and other lips I will speak to this people, and then they will not hear ...

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1872, Hugh Rowley, Sage stuffing for green goslings; or, Saws for the goose and saws, edition Digitized, published 2006, page 159.

If they've got anything to say which they want you to hear, let 'em say it out; if not, hold their tungs.

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2002 Fall, Richard Whelan quoting Melvil Dewey, “The American Spelling Reform Movement”, Verbatim, The Language Quarterly, volume XXVII, number 4, ISSN 0162–0932, page 5.

English has strength, simplicity, conciseness, capacity for taking words freely from other tungs, and best of all has the greatest literature the world has yet produced.

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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
tung
Plural:
tungs

Origin of tung

  • From Middle English tung, from Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”). Liken Dutch tong, German Zunge, Swedish tunga), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s

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Tung Sentence Examples

  • The inhabitants are mentioned in the official works of the Yuan dynasty as Tung fan or eastern barbarians; and under the Ming dynasty the island begins to appear as Kilung.

  • From Chieng Khan the river again turns eastwards along the 18th parallel, forcing its way through its most serious rapid-barrier, and receiving some important tributaries from the highlands of Tung Chieng Kum and Chieng Kwang, the finest country in Indo-China.

  • At Tung Kwan the river is joined by its only considerable affluent in China proper, the Wei (Wei-ho), which drains the large province of Shensi, and the combined volume of water continues its way at first east and then northeast across the great plain to the sea.

  • By these ranges it is forced due south for 500 m., forming the boundary between the provinces of Shansi and Shensi, until it finds an outlet eastwards at Tung Kwan - a pass which for centuries has been renowned as the gate of Asia, being indeed the sole commercial passage between central China and the West.

  • He received considerable assistance and encouragement in Japan, where he founded a society known as the Tung Men-hui, which played a prominent part in Chinese politics after the establishment of the Republic. Although an exile, he was generally regarded by the " Western-learning " section of Young China as its leader, especially after the Chinese Government's attempt to kidnap him in London, in 1896.

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