tongue-twister
Noun
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Noun
tongue-twister
- 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.
- finger-fumbler
- French: virelangue
- German: Zungenbrecher
- Italian: scioglilingua
- Portuguese: trava-língua
- Russian: скорогово́рка
- Spanish: trabalenguas
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