Definition of "tung" [tung]

• Simplified, and former, spelling of tongue (noun)
• A tung tree. (noun)

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• "Nana himself was a burly, fat-faced rascal with curly mustachioes and a shifty look — what they call a tung admi, * (* Literally, "a tight man".) dressed in more silks and jewels than a French whore, sliding his eyes across Moore and me and whispering behind a plump hand to the woman beside him."
• "Nana himself was a burly, fat-faced rascal with curly mustachioes and a shifty look - what they call a tung admi, * (* Literally, "a tight man".) dressed in more silks and jewels than a French whore, sliding his eyes across Moore and me and whispering behind a plump hand to the woman beside him."
• "It would be unfair to say, as many do, that Mao Tse-tung is not a patriot and a nationalist."