tongue-twister

See also: tongue twister

English

Alternative forms

• tongue twister

Pronunciation

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Noun

Examples
Red lorry, yellow lorry Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

tongue-twister (plural tongue-twisters)

1. A phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes.
   • 1855, H. Taylor with J. H. Beech, “Report of the Committee on Dysentery”, in The Transactions of the American Medical Association‎, volume viii, Philadelphia: Collins, page 568:

     The present name being a translation, "in brief," of the original tongue-twister, meaning "the river of the rock"

Coordinate terms

• finger-fumbler

Translations

phrase which is difficult to say

Arabic: تَنَافُر m (tanāfur) Aymara: laxra chinja Azerbaijani: yanıltmac Basque: aho-korapilo Bavarian: Zungabrecha f, Bappndralla f Belarusian: скорагаво́рка f (skorahavórka), быстрамо́ўка f (bystramóŭka) (taraškievica) Bulgarian: скоропоговорка f (skoropogovorka) Catalan: travallengua (ca) m, embarbussament (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 急口令 (gap1 hau2 ling6) Hokkien: 繞口令／绕口令 (liáu-kháu-lēng), 桀口話／桀口话 (ke̍h-kháu-ōe), 謔喙訣／谑喙诀 (gio̍h-chhùi-koat) Mandarin: 繞口令／绕口令 (zh) (ràokǒulìng), 拗口令 (zh) (àokǒulìng) Crimean Tatar: tezaytım Czech: jazykolam m Danish: tungebrækker c Dutch: tongbreker (nl) m Esperanto: langrompilo Finnish: kielivoimisteluloru, sanahirviö (fi) French: virelangue (fr) m Galician: trabalinguas m German: Zungenbrecher (de) m Alemannic German: Zongabrecher m Greek: γλωσσοδέτης (el) m (glossodétis) Hungarian: nyelvtörő (hu) Icelandic: tungubrjót m Indonesian: pembelit lidah Irish: rabhlóg f, casfhocal m Italian: scioglilingua (it) m Japanese: 早口言葉 (ja) (はやくちことば, hayakuchi kotoba) Komi-Zyrian: кывбертлас (kyvbertlas) Korean: 빠른말 (ppareunmal), 잰말놀이 (jaenmallori) Kyrgyz: жаңылтмач (ky) (jaŋıltmac) Latvian: ātrruna f, mēles mežģis f Lithuanian: greitãkalbė (lt) f Lombard: deslengualengua m Low German: German Low German: Tungenbreker m Macedonian: брзозбо́рка f (brzozbórka) Maori: pepe takimanawa Norwegian: Bokmål: tungekrøll m Nynorsk: tungekrøll m Occitan: viralenga (oc) f Polish: łamaniec językowy (pl) m, łamaniec (pl) m Portuguese: trava-língua (pt) m, trava-línguas m Romanian: frântură de limbă f Russian: скорогово́рка (ru) f (skorogovórka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бр̀залица f Roman: br̀zalica (sh) f Slovak: jazykolam m Spanish: trabalenguas (es) m Swahili: kitanza ndimi Swedish: tungvrickare (sv) c Tagalog: pamilipit-dila, pampilipit-dila Telugu: టంగ్-ట్విస్టర్ (ṭaṅg-ṭvisṭar) Turkish: tekerleme (tr) Udmurt: ӝогверан (džogveran), кылтӥян (kyltijan) Ukrainian: скоромовка f (skoromovka) Uzbek: tez aytish Walloon: toitche-linwe (wa) m Welsh: cwlwm tafod m West Frisian: tongbrekkerssechje c Yiddish: גיכווערטל n (gikhvertl)

Further reading

• tongue twister on Wikipedia.Wikipedia