mouth

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

mouths

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

mouth

past (v2)

mouthed

past participle (v3)

mouthed

present participle

mouthing

3rd person singular

mouths

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

   • "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
   • She kissed him on the mouth.

2. 2.The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.

   • The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.

3. 3.An outlet, aperture or orifice.

   • But why give a tunnel mouth any decoration whatsoever?
   • But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses.
   • ‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’

4. 4.A loud or overly talkative person.(slang)

   • My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To speak; to utter.

   • How can you get up there and mouth such clichés?
   • He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.

2. 2.To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.

   • "So very hot,” I mouthed at myself in the mirror.
   • She mouthed a warning to me as the teacher entered the room.
   • The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.

3. 3.To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.

   • 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.

4. 4.Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely.

   • She [Marjorie Taylor Greene] seems to have sincerely believed the lies that shrewder players merely mouthed.

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