0 If you get tongue-tied, you find it difficult to express yourself, usually because you are nervous.
1 having difficulty in speaking, usually because of being nervous:
I was practically tongue-tied.
The experimenter noted whether children answered correctly, refused to answer, made a consistent articulation substitution error, or were tongue-tied.
Items on which the child was tongue-tied were repeated; incorrect responses did not count as tongue-tied.
They cannot express what they want to say and become tongue-tied and inhibited.
This means, in our present context, that parents are not exempted from their responsibilities if their children are tongue-tied or have only four fingers on each hand.
In the first, he is tongue-tied with embarrassed desire, and she is only just recovering from the aesthetic shell shock so famously described at the opening of chapter 21.
Only those who have appeared in the courts know how a young person can be completely tongue-tied and unable to express himself.
He certainly was not tongue-tied, because in the next column he took up the questioning again on something completely different.
He found men who had previously been always tongue-tied talking quite freely to the boys.
