Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The amount of food or other material that can be placed or held in the mouth at one time.
- n. A small amount to be tasted or eaten.
- n. A long word, name, or phrase that is difficult to pronounce.
- n. An important or perceptive remark: You said a mouthful!
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. As much as the mouth will contain or as is put into the mouth at one time.
- n. A small quantity.
Wiktionary
- n. The amount that will fit in a mouth.
- n. slang Quite a bit.
- n. Something difficult to pronounce or say.
- n. A tirade of abusive language (especially in the term "give someone a mouthful")
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.
- n. Hence, a small quantity.
- n. informal A statement that has a profound truth in it
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small amount eaten or drunk
- n. the quantity that can be held in the mouth
Etymologies
- mouth + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Each mouthful is a special treat, bursting with moisture and flavor as you crush the papaya cube with your tongue.”
“But in the well-made cake, the plums are wisely scattered all through, and every mouthful is a pleasure.”
“The pulp, a juicy mouthful, is sweet, and melts away in the mouth, leaving a single stone.”
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
“I’ve always had a healthy handful, (any more than a handful or a mouthful is waste anyway … or so I’ve been told) but pregnant and nursing they get way out of hand. (ha ha) Now that my third and last child will probably be weaning soon, I expect the girls to travel even further south.”
“The irrational fear that we don’t know where our next mouthful is coming from may make us hoard or overeat.”
“People find my first name a mouthful but generally like it.”
“There is yet another fiber network, called a mouthful SEA-ME-WE-4, is being constructed to serve the booming Asian demand for bandwidth.”
“A mouthful, that is, of nothing over which a blessing must be pronounced.”
“No one can rid thee of that mouthful, which is as thy evil words returned to choke thee!”
“The Americans, who seem to know the value of time, generally get up and decamp immediately after the last mouthful, which is perhaps a sensible plan.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mouthful’.
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Units Of Anything
Descriptions of when more than one thing is present. Usually proceeding the word "of"
Example: "Pile" of Junkunit, pile, horde, group, slew, crowd, bunch, set, heap, nest, gross, glut and 21 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Nigella Bites
words from the cookbook "Nigella Bites" by Nigella Lawson
intend, evangelical, present, nattering space, inevitably, consequently, techniques, liqueur, purist, frankly, constraints, jot and 256 more...
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A Mouthy List
Mouth words and phrases. Also check out this mouth list.
mouthful, mouthpiece, mouth-watering, mouthwash, mouthfeel, mouth-filling, mouthguard, mouth breather, mouthpart, mouthless, mouther, mouth-hole and 81 more...
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nevan's Words
rubicund, tartuffery, gelid, mellifluous, mouthful, strata, soliloquy, effervescent, platitude, acquiesce, diaeresis, orthogonal and 2 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear *singing "Reciprocity"* Dec 16, 2008
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Chayce, now we all know you don't have any testicles anymore--if you ever did. Dec 16, 2008
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skipvia It appears that chayce's testicles detach, somehow. Dec 16, 2008
chained_bear Probably chayce doesn't have any testicles. Poor thing. Dec 5, 2008
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vanishedone Got a troll in here, have we? Dec 4, 2008
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