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لسان معضوض

English translation: slurring his words

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Arabic term or phrase:لسان معضوض
English translation:slurring his words

13:34 Feb 12, 2021
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Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Arabic term or phrase: لسان معضوض
I'm working on a Libyan text, and trying to understand how the verb 'to bite' works with the noun tongue here. In this scene, the narrator is being told about a glass eye that he can borrow, but it used to belong to someone who fought in the war. He's scared at the prospect, and shivers/trembles. And then he says with a 'bitten tongue'?

Here's the Arabic:

هذي عين واحد انعورفي الحرب ٬ ما لقوش جثته لليوم"
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ارتجف خالد وقال بلسان معضوض:
أنا ما ليش فيه جو الحرب٫ أنا راجل شاعر مرهف المشاعر

I understand the rest of what I've written above, but have just given a few lines for context.
Saliha18
Local time: 04:51
slurring his words
Explanation:
If your tongue is bitten, it's thicker, so you slur in your speech.
OR,
as if his tongue had been bitten
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Milena Atanasova
Bulgaria
Local time: 06:51
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1stuttering, he said....
Saeed Najmi
3 +1slurring his words
Milena Atanasova


  

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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
stuttering, he said....


Explanation:
said clumsily
he was scared, so his voice was shaking
he stuttered, spoke clumsily or so I suppose

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Note added at 36 mins (2021-02-12 14:11:04 GMT)
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This is a sheer guess based on human nature

Saeed Najmi
Morocco
Local time: 04:51
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 146

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agree  Milena Atanasova: same goes for my version too :).
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
slurring his words


Explanation:
If your tongue is bitten, it's thicker, so you slur in your speech.
OR,
as if his tongue had been bitten

Milena Atanasova
Bulgaria
Local time: 06:51
Works in field
Native speaker of: Bulgarian
PRO pts in category: 23
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agree  Saeed Najmi: Right!
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