a. Having a ‘long tongue’; having much to say; chattering, babbling.
1553. Respublica (Brandl), III. vi. 84. A daughter eke he hath … As vnhappie a longtounged girle as can be.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., II. ii. 102. Why how now long-tongu’d Warwick, dare you speak?
1602. How Choose Good Wife, G 3. She blusht & said that long tongu’d men would tell.
1737. Ramsay, Sc. Prov. (1797), 56. Lang tongu’d wives gae lang wi’ bairn.
1818. Scott, Old Mort., vi. The foul fa’ ye … for a lang-tongued wife.
1880. Miss Braddon, Just as I am, xii. You didn’t ought to give heed to a long-tongued fellow like Jebb, a man that must be talking.
