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  • adjective Having a broad mouth.
  • adjective obsolete Outspoken; rude.

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Examples

  • Nay, it is a well known fact, which I can testify from my own experience, that on a clear still summer evening, you may hear, from the Battery of New York, the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at

    Washington Irving 2004

  • He swaggered to our coffee-hearth, as a man sure of his welcome, greeting Ali boisterously (after our long sojourn with the tribes all peasants sounded boisterous), laughing broad-mouthed at the weather and our old fort and the enemy.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • His powerful black horse was decorated with tassels and fanciful trappings, and a couple of broad-mouthed blunderbusses hung behind the saddle.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • His powerful black horse was decorated with tassels and fanciful trappings, and a couple of broad-mouthed blunderbusses hung behind the saddle.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • She flipped up her faceplate, and gave him a radiant, brown-eyed, broad-mouthed smile.

    Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

  • As he had seen on arrival, the broad-mouthed well in the centre of the plaza, before the house of the dead and damned priest-chief, was not flanked by the totems he had been taught to expect.

    Anywhen Blish, James 1970

  • And while he gave unto every one of his pupils a narrow-mouthed vessel (for fetching water) in order that much time may be spent in filling them, he gave unto his own son Aswatthaman a broad-mouthed vessel, so that, filling it quickly, he might return soon enough.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • No braying of trumpets, clashing of cymbals, or hoarse groaning of gongs; no roaring through broad-mouthed horns, smacking of canvass, or pattering of incompetent rifles.

    A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

  • When all the dirt and gravel, or rock, had been washed out of the sluices, a whisk broom was used to brush the gold into a corner of the box, a dustpan conveyed it to broad-mouthed gold pans close at hand, and these were carried into the kitchen.

    A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan

  • And while he gave unto every one of his pupils a narrow-mouthed vessel (for fetching water) in order that much time may be spent in filling them, he gave unto his own son Aswatthaman a broad-mouthed vessel, so that, filling it quickly, he might return soon enough.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

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