tonsils
English
Noun
tonsils
- plural of tonsil
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”
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- (plural only, nonstandard) The uvula.
Derived terms
- faucial tonsils
- pharyngeal tonsils
- to the tonsils, up to the tonsils
Anagrams
- Listons, Stilson, Tilsons