clamorous vs tongue-tied

clamorous

adj
  • Of great intensity. 

  • Creating a loud noise. 

  • Expressed loudly. 

  • Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise. 

  • Insistently expressing a desire for something. 

  • Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns. 

tongue-tied

adj
  • Reluctant to speak up; reserved, reticent. 

  • Having tongue-tie or ankyloglossia (“a congenital oral anomaly in which the lingual frenulum (a membrane connecting the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth) is unusually short and thick, decreasing mobility of the tongue and affecting eating, speech, etc.”). 

  • Physically unable to speak; dumb, mute. 

  • Prevented from or unable to express oneself clearly or fluently, or freely; at a loss for words, speechless. 

How often have the words clamorous and tongue-tied occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )