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tongue-twister

tongue-twister

See also: tongue twister

English

Noun

tongue-twister ‎(plural tongue-twisters)

A phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes.
“Red lorry, yellow lorry” and “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” are well-known tongue-twisters.

Related terms

finger-fumbler

Translations

phrase which is difficult to say

Belarusian: скорагаво́рка f ‎(skorahavórka), быстрамо́ўка f ‎(bystramóŭka) (taraškievica)
Catalan: travallengua m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拗口令 (zh) ‎(àokǒulìng), 繞口令 (zh), 绕口令 (zh) ‎(ràokǒulìng)
Crimean Tatar: tezaytım
Czech: jazykolam m
Esperanto: langrompilo
Finnish: kielivoimisteluloru, sanahirviö
French: virelangue (fr) m
German: Zungenbrecher (de) m
Greek: γλωσσοδέτης (el) m ‎(glossodétis)
Hungarian: nyelvtörő (hu)
Irish: rabhlóg f, casfhocal m
Italian: scioglilingua m

Japanese: 早口言葉 ‎(はやくちことば, hayakuchi kotoba)
Korean: 빠른말 ‎(ppareunmal)
Macedonian: брзозборка f ‎(brzozbórka)
Maori: pepe takimanawa
Occitan: viralenga
Polish: łamaniec językowy (pl) m, łamaniec (pl) m
Portuguese: trava-língua
Russian: скорогово́рка (ru) f ‎(skorogovórka)
Serbo-Croatian: brzalica (sh) f ‎(брзалица)
Spanish: trabalenguas (es) m
Swedish: tungvrickare (sv) c
Tagalog: pamilipit-dila, pampilipit-dila
Turkish: tekerleme (tr)
Yiddish: גיכווערטל n ‎(gikhvertl)

External links

tongue-twister on Wikipedia.Wikipedia