split tongue
Snake mouth feature
A split tongue is a tongue surgically or intentionally modified to have a forked appearance, resembling a snake's tongue—a form of body modification.
The term also describes someone who speaks with deception or says contradictory things to different people: He speaks with a split tongue.
This figurative sense connects to the forked tongue of serpents, long associated with duplicity.
- forkedDivided into prongs
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
- snakeLimbless scaled reptile
- pit viperHeat-sensing venomous snake
- venomInjected animal poison
lizard · reptile · hiss · flickering · taste · scent · modification · piercing · body mod · body art · snake charmer · deception · lies · two-faced liar · double-talk · cunning · sly · devil
- tonguetip, root, blade, dorsum, frenulum
- body modificationtattoo, body modification, tattoos, piercing, tattooing
- Physical Anomaliescleft lip, cleft palate, clubfoot, birthmark, heterochromia
split tonguestraight talk
Honest, direct communication
candor · truthfulness · sincerity · forthrightness · straight shooter
split tonguestraight shooter
Forthright, blunt person
truth-teller · straight talker · candid · forthright · silver tongue
split, tongue, splits, splitting, splitter, tongues, tongued, tongueless