7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
verb articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
verb lick or explore with the tongue
adjective provided with or resembling a tongue; often used in combination
originFrom Middle English tonged, tunged, equivalent to tongue + -ed. Compare Old English ġetynġe (“skilled with speech, talkative, eloquent”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0