Slang vs. Tongue — What's the Difference?

Slang is language (words, phrases, and usages) of an informal register. It also sometimes refers to the language generally exclusive to the members of particular in-groups prefer over the common vocabulary of a standard language in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.

The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical vertebrate. It manipulates food for mastication and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste.

A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effect.

The fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech.

Language peculiar to a group; argot or jargon

Used in reference to a person's style or manner of speaking

To use slang.

A strip of leather or fabric under the laces in a shoe, attached only at the front end.

To use angry and abusive language

The free-swinging metal piece inside a bell which is made to strike the bell to produce the sound.

To attack with abusive language; vituperate

A long, low promontory of land.

Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.

A projecting strip on a wooden board fitting into a groove on another.

Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.

The vibrating reed of a musical instrument or organ pipe.

The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.

A jet of flame

(countable) A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.

Sound (a note) distinctly on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue

(countable) An item of slang; a slang word or expression.

Lick or caress with the tongue

(India) A curse word.

The fleshy, movable, muscular organ, attached in most vertebrates to the floor of the mouth, that is the principal organ of taste, an aid in chewing and swallowing, and, in humans, an important organ of speech.

Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.

An analogous organ or part in invertebrate animals, as in certain insects or mollusks.

A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

The tongue of an animal, such as a cow, used as food.

A counterfeit weight or measure.

A spoken language or dialect.

A travelling show, or one of its performances.

Speech; talk

A hawker's license.

The act or power of speaking

A watchchain.

Tongues Speech or vocal sounds produced in a state of religious ecstasy.

To vocally abuse, or shout at.

Style or quality of utterance

To sell especially illegal drugs.

The bark or baying of a hunting dog that sees game

Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.

The vibrating end of a reed in a wind instrument.

A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

A flame.

Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.

The flap of material under the laces or buckles of a shoe.

To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.

A spit of land; a promontory.

Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar;

A bell clapper.

A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);

The harnessing pole attached to the front axle of a horse-drawn vehicle.

Use slang or vulgar language

A protruding strip along the edge of a board that fits into a matching groove on the edge of another board.

Fool or hoax;

(Music) To separate or articulate (notes played on a brass or wind instrument) by shutting off the stream of air with the tongue.

Abuse with coarse language

To touch or lick with the tongue.

To give (someone) a French-kiss.

To provide (a board) with a tongue.

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

(Archaic) To scold.

(Music) To articulate notes on a brass or wind instrument.

To project

The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).

Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.

(metonym) A language.

(obsolete) Speakers of a language, collectively.

(obsolete) Voice the distinctive sound of a person's speech; accent distinctive manner of pronouncing a language.

Manner of speaking, often habitually.

(metonym) A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).

The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.

(obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

(obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.

Glossolalia.

In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).

Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

The clapper of a bell.

(figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.

A small sole (type of fish).

(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

(music) A reed.

(geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.

On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

(slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.

To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

To join by means of a tongue and groove.

To talk; to prate.

To speak; to utter.

To chide; to scold.

An organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

The power of articulate utterance; speech.

Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Honorable discourse; eulogy.

A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.

Speech; words or declarations only; - opposed to thoughts or actions.

A people having a distinct language.

The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

Any small sole.

That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.

A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.

The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.

The clapper of a bell.

A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.

To speak; to utter.

To chide; to scold.

To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.

To talk; to prate.

To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

A human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Any long thin projection that is transient;

A manner of speaking;

A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

The tongue of certain animals used as meat

The flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot

Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

Articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Lick or explore with the tongue