trabarse la lengua

Spanish

Verb

trabarse la lengua (first-person singular present me trabo la lengua, first-person singular preterite me trabé la lengua, past participle trabado la lengua)

1. (idiomatic, figurative) to become tongue-tied

Further reading

• “trabarse la lengua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10