triple-tongue

1. 1.

   play fast notes on a wind instrument

   Synonymsdouble tongue

   Broadertongue

   music

Questions about triple-tongue

What does triple-tongue mean?

triple-tongue means "play fast notes on a wind instrument".

How many syllables are in triple-tongue?

triple-tongue has 4 syllables: tri-ple--ton-gue. The stress falls on "ple-".

What is another word for triple-tongue?

Close synonyms include double tongue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is triple-tongue a common word?

triple-tongue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.