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Noun

tongue-twister (plural tongue-twisters)

1. 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.

Translations

• Chinese: 拗口令 (aokouling)
• French: phrase f très difficile à prononcer
• German: Zungenbrecher m
• Italian: scioglilingua m
• Japanese: 早口言葉
• Spanish: trabalenguas m

See also

• finger-fumbler
• Wikipedia article on tongue-twisters