Home › Words › T › tongueshottongueshottongueshot · noun — the distance within which a person's voice can be heard.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyBlend of tongue + earshot or from tongue + shot.nounThe distance within which a person's voice can be heard.e.g.“[…] the pantry was within tongueshot of the dining room […]” — 2000, Randall Beth Platt, The 1898 Base-ball Fe-as-ko, page 191:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).