mouth
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.Examples: ""Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor."; "I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan."
2. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.Examples: "My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up."slang
3. (slang) A gossip.Examples: "Siobhán, you know Donna's a mouth."slang
4. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
5. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.Examples: "Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives."obsolete
6. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.Examples: "that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To speak; to utter.Examples: "He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting."; "mouthing big phrases"transitive
2. (transitive) To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.Examples: "The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them."; "One was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound eee, the other was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound ahhh."; "It should be explained that lip patterns are generally not the same as patterns which would be made by 'mouthing' words."transitive
3. (transitive, intransitive) To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.Examples: "But words are nothing to the misbelieving -- mere air mouthed into a sound."; "There was also a close temporal contiguity between "smiling" or other "emotional" grimaces and mouthing and tonguing movements, so that it was often difficult to distinguish between mouthing and smiling."intransitivetransitive
4. (ambitransitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.Examples: "Those who endeavor to become eloquent by mere imitation of some celebrated model—an actor for instance—often attempt to gain this quality by altering their voice in an unnatural manner. Such a process never produces any thing but mouthing."; "This view of voice cultivation excludes all mouthing and ranting which have been thought to be necessary incidents of voice culture."ambitransitive
5. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.Examples: "The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite."; "She alighted and mouthed over several within a small space and a short time; and these buds were not at the bottom of the hedge; nor was she searching for a nest-site."; "His manner of feeding was curious, any fish he was provided with not being snapped up immediately, but played with and mouthed all over for a quarter of an hour or more, when it suddenly disappeared as if by magic."transitive
6. (obsolete) To make mouths atExamples: "He drew the cork from his bottle..and mouthed at his companions even while he bowed to them."; "Meanwhile, the tyrant, with untimely wit And mouthing face, derides the small one's moan, Who, all lamenting for his loss, doth sit,"; "And that other face -- that awful, gibbering, mouthing face she drew away."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary