Timeline for What is the numb sensation in the mouth caused by some fruits called?
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| Dec 14, 2016 at 12:52 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2016 at 9:49 | answer | added | Kate Bunting | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 4:35 | history | protected | user140086 | ||
| Jun 7, 2016 at 1:44 | comment | added | user179747 | Pineapple also does this and it kind of feels like you burned your tongue | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 11:07 | history | unprotected | Mari-Lou A | ||
| Nov 4, 2015 at 22:46 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Nov 4, 2015 at 19:59 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | I vividly remember, when I was about seven years old, being given an unripe American persimmon—a berry-size fruit—biting it, and feeling as though my tongue were suddenly covered with fur. My father (who had given it to me) explained that the persimmon had that effect because of "the alum in it." | |
| Jun 20, 2014 at 11:40 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A |
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| Oct 20, 2013 at 9:02 | vote | accept | Armen Ծիրունյան | ||
| Oct 19, 2013 at 19:45 | answer | added | user49727 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 19, 2013 at 18:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/391632111066959872 | ||
| Oct 19, 2013 at 17:58 | answer | added | Mari-Lou A | timeline score: 25 | |
| Oct 19, 2013 at 17:25 | answer | added | bib | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 19, 2013 at 15:18 | comment | added | Mitch | There's no natural term for it in English. You have described it, a numb or tingling sensation, but there's no special term. If there is a term surely it is a highly technical medical term. | |
| Oct 19, 2013 at 15:10 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | I know the exact single word... in Russian. Yandex translates it as the rather cumbersome "my mouth feels constricted/drawn", which doesn't actually sound like the same thing to boot. And needless to say, I've never heard anybody use either expression. The Russian word (вяжет [во рту]), on the other hand, is ubiquitous. Everyone knows and uses it. (Russians seem to have a dedicated word for everything happening in their mouths, another example being оскомина, which is recognized as untranslatable into English.) | |
| Oct 19, 2013 at 13:57 | answer | added | Kris | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 19, 2013 at 13:42 | comment | added | mplungjan | Deadening is a word that comes to mind | |
| Oct 19, 2013 at 13:40 | comment | added | mplungjan | I sometimes get it from Kiwi | |
| Oct 19, 2013 at 13:29 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Szechuan pepper has a similar effect (though it's more like your tongue goes all tingly and buzzy for a bit, and kind of goes numb), hence its Chinese name, 麻辣 málà, meaning literally ‘numbing chilli’. Not sure if that's the same kind of numbness—I've certainly never heard of a specific word for it. | |
| Oct 19, 2013 at 13:14 | history | asked | Armen Ծիրունյան | CC BY-SA 3.0 |