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tongue-twister
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tongue-twisternoun
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.
Etymology: tongue + twister
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Tongue-twister
A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tongue-twister in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tongue-twister in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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