Another word for tongue-tied

Many guys are very shy around girls and easily get tongue-tied.

It's a great cliché, the tongue-tied suitor trying to come up with sweet things to say to girls.

If you aren't quick with words, you might want to write down and rehearse the perfect words to say to your sweetheart, so you aren't tongue-tied when the romantic moment arrives.

Santa Ana, Otto, ed. Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education.

However, a pediatrician can tell you if the baby is gaining enough weight, if there is a medical problem preventing you from breastfeeding and if your baby is tongue-tied.