tongue pie n.
1. a scolding, a telling of; usu. matrimonial.
Mrs. Cuddle’s Bed-Room Lectures 10–15 6: When Cuddle he came home at night, / To face his sweet tormenting wife, / Tongue pie at him she’d sweetly pour, / At the rate of sixty miles or more. | ||
Star (Guernsey) 9 Apr. 2/7: Members, as a rule, are partial to ‘tongue pie.’ They like to tread upon each other’s corns. | ||
York Herald 21 Oct. 16/3: ‘Tongue Pie’. Doctor: ‘I’m afraid you wife has a disease of the jaw, Mr Nagg.’ Mr Nagg: ‘I dare say; I know “jaw” is a disease with her’. | ||
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 16 Oct. 2/7: I hears the gel a -cryin’ / And the mother, pipin’ hot / Givin’ her tongue-pie. | ||
Sun. Times (Perth) 21 Apr. 1/1: His innuendoes to mere school girls got him a repast of tongue pie. [...] He is also a trifle too free with his comments on calves. | ||
Le Slang. | ||
Nott. Eve. Post 10 Dec. 1/5: If there is one thing I can’t stand it is tongue pie. | ||
Eve. teleg. (Dundee) 2 Jan. 2/3: Defendant at West Ham to the Magistrate— If you are a married man, sir, you know what tongue pie [is]! | ||
Boston Globe (MA) 5 Mar. 24/7: Tongue pie ‘a severe scolding. | ||
Hartford Courant (CT) 12 Nov. 4F/4: Gloss. of Cockney Eng. [...] A tongue pie is a severe scolding. |
2. cunnilingus.
Lowspeak. |
In phrases
to receive a scolding; thus give tongue pie, to scold.
Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 41: I went home boozed last night [...] the missus served me up a dish of tongue pie with chin sauce. | ||
Western Times 6 Aug. 4/3: I had ‘tongue pie’ for my supper on Wednesday evening, and no man can put up with that. | ||
Sporting Times 22 Apr. 1/3: She forms idiotic estimates of how much I have sunk / In the liquor line, and I get lots of tongue. | ‘Off the Mark’||
Hull Dly Mail 8 Oct. 3/7: All his wife seems to give him is tongue pie. |