Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with a mouth: mainly used in composition, to note some characteristic of mouth or of speech, as in
hard-mouthed , foul-mouthed, mealy-mouthed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with a mouth.
- adjective Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective in combination Having some
specific type ofmouth - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mouth .
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Examples
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It was no stunt, either: He used a baton and a score, mouthed the Latin words for the benefit of the singers, and controlled the performance with the unflappable assurance of an old pro.
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If there is a woman in crisis after she's in crisis to match her up with a family [who was] very closed mouthed, which is very hard to find, and it would be a haven for the batterer plus the battered woman and they would take the woman in and they would learn with the husband and try to behave, I would say, like surrogate parents ...
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The researchers have also tested a predictive-analysis system, which considers the last word mouthed to help determine the next.
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Was there "enormous irony" in the fact that Black Power activists "mouthed" these sentiments?
Balkinization 2007
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Eagle River homeowners killed a black bear that sneaked into a chicken coop and ate the owner's favorite bird on Friday, hours after a different bear "mouthed" the leg of a girl at a neighborhood playground near Elmendorf Air Force Base.
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Melanie mouthed a good-bye to me, tipping her head at both of us before she slid through the portal.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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Then, she mouthed to me, two hundred thousand dollars.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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My mother swatted my father and mouthed “dildos” accusingly.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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Unable to actually speak because of her tracheotomy, her parched lips mouthed her wishes.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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My fingers expertly flipped over the little orange vials as I mouthed the names.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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