double-tongued
adjEtymology From Middle English doubultongud, dowbyl townged, dubble tungyd, equivalent to double + tongued.
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Idiomatic Saying one thing to one person and something different to another; double talking; deceitful in speech.
- Thou art but a double-tongu'd Chriſtian, I doubt: […]1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC, page 279:
- “Thou wry-necked, trash-mongering, swaggering, double-tongued, huff-snuff!”1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 123:
- Synonyms
- twi-tongued, two-tongued