tongney

Updated: September 2, 2025

An Indian will drink cider, though he niver be athirst. “I must say,” observed Hiram, with due deliberation, “that it was a tongney thing; and I rather guess that it gave considerable satisfaction, There was one part, though, which might have been left out, or something else put in; but then I s’pose that, as it was a written discourse, it is not so easily altered as where a minister preaches without notes.”

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers