mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mouth
ipa: /maʊθ/
ipa: /mʌʊθ/
ipa: [məʊθ]
ipa: /muːθ/
rhymes: -aʊθ
ipa: /maʊð/
ipa: /maʊð/
rhymes: -aʊð
Forms: form: mouths
Etymology: From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”).
Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian munn (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite [script needed] (mēni, “chin”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
text: 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.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
examples: text: The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.
text: The Yalu is mainly useful in floating down immense rafts of wood, which find their way from the town of Antung, at the mouth of the river, to the port of Newchwang, and to Chefoo and Tientsin for the provinces of Shantung and Chihli.
ref: 1895 May, John Ross, “Manchuria”, in The Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume XI, number V, Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 220–221:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses.
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:
text: ‘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.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: But why give a tunnel mouth any decoration whatsoever?
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 42:
glosses: An outlet, aperture or orifice.
examples: text: My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.
glosses: A loud or overly talkative person.
examples: text: Siobhán, you know Donna's a mouth.
ref: 2012, Stuart Carolan, 40:45 from the start, in Love/Hate, season 3, episode 3, spoken by Tommy Daly (Killian Scott):
glosses: A gossip.
glosses: The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
examples: text: Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
ref: 1712 June 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, June 12, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 403; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
examples: text: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 18:16:
glosses: Speech; language; testimony.
examples: text: Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
Synonyms: word: bazoo
word: cakehole
word: chops
word: clam
word: clamshell
word: gob
word: hash-trap
word: kisser
word: laughing gear
word: maw
word: mouth
word: mush
word: neb
word: ned
word: north and south
word: oral cavity
word: os
word: piehole
word: potato trap
word: puss
word: sucker
word: trap
word: yap
Hypernyms: word: body part
word: orifice
Meronyms: word: grill
word: gums
word: jaw
word: lip
word: palate
word: tooth
word: tongue
Derived terms: sense: Nouns
word: a closed mouth catches no flies
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word: a closed mouth doesn't get fed
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word: a closed mouth gathers no feet
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word: adder's mouth
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word: all mouth
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word: allmouth
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word: all mouth and no pants
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word: trousers
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word: all mouth and pants
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word: all of one's taste is in one's mouth
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word: all one's taste is in one's mouth
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word: assmouth
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word: ass to mouth
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word: ass-to-mouth
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word: ATM
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word: babblemouth
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word: badmouth
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word: bad-mouth
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word: bad taste in one's mouth
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word: bean mouth
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word: bellmouth
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word: bemouth
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word: big mouth
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word: bigmouth
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word: birdsmouth
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word: bird's mouth
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word: blabbermouth
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word: blabmouth
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word: blackmouth
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word: bloodmouth
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word: bone-mouth
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word: born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
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word: bristlemouth
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word: broadmouth
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word: bucketmouth
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word: burning mouth syndrome
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word: butter will not melt in someone's mouth
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word: butter won't melt in someone's mouth
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word: butter would not melt in someone's mouth
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word: butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
sense: Nouns
word: cavemouth
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word: chiselmouth
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word: corner of the mouth
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word: cottonmouth
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word: diarrhea of the mouth
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word: dirty mouth
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word: don't look a gift horse in the mouth
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word: down in the mouth
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word: downmouth
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word: do you kiss your mother with that mouth
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word: dragon's mouth
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word: dry mouth
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word: fishmouth
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word: flannelmouth
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word: flannel-mouth
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word: flannel mouth
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word: flutemouth
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word: foam at the mouth
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word: foot-and-mouth disease
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word: foot-and-mouth
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word: foot and mouth
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word: foot-in-mouth disease
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word: foulmouth
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word: frogmouth
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word: froth at the mouth
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word: full-mouth
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word: give it mouth
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word: goalmouth
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word: guttermouth
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word: gutter mouth
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word: hand-foot-and-mouth disease
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word: hand-foot-mouth disease
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word: hand-to-mouth
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word: hand to mouth
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word: headmouth
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word: hoof-and-mouth disease
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word: horse's mouth
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word: hush one's mouth
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word: jungle mouth
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word: keep a civil tongue in one's mouth
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word: keep one's mouth shut
sense: Nouns
word: largemouth
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word: laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
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word: laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
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word: leave a sour taste in one's mouth
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word: lie ill in one's mouth
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word: loud mouth
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word: loudmouthed
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word: loud-mouthed
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word: loudmouth
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word: loud-mouth
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word: lower mouth
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word: mean-mouth
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word: megamouth
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word: melt in the mouth
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word: metal mouth
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word: meth mouth
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word: motormouth
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word: motor-mouth
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word: motor mouth
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word: mouthable
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word: mouth bar
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word: mouthblown
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word: mouth bow
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word: mouthbow
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word: mouth-breathe
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word: mouth-breather
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word: mouth breather
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word: mouthbreathing
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word: mouth breathing
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word: mouthbreeder
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word: mouthbrooder
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word: mouthbrooding
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word: mouthcare
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word: mouth cavity
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word: mouthcoating
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word: mouth cone
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word: mouth diaper
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word: mouthed
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word: -mouthed
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word: mouther
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word: mouthfeel
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word: mouth feel
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word: mouthfilling
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word: mouth-footed
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word: mouth-friend
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word: mouthfuck
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word: mouthfucker
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word: mouthful
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word: mouth-gasm
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word: mouthgasm
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word: mouth guard
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word: mouthguard
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word: mouth harp
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word: mouth harpist
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word: mouth hook
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word: mouthie
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word: mouth job
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word: mouthless
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word: mouthlike
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word: mouthline
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word: mouthly
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word: mouth-made
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word: mouth mirror
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word: mouth music
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word: mouth of a sailor
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word: mouth off
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word: mouth-organ
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word: mouth organ
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word: mouth organist
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word: mouthpart
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word: mouth-part
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word: mouthpie
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word: mouthpiece
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word: mouthpipe
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word: mouth-puckeringly
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word: mouth-pussy
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word: mouth rape
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word: mouthrinse
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word: mouth soaping
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word: mouth-soaping
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word: mouthsome
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word: mouthsore
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word: mouthstick
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word: mouth-to-mouth
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word: mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
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word: mouth ulcer
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word: mouthward
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word: mouthwards
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word: mouth wash
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word: mouthwash
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word: mouth-wateringly
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word: mouthwatering
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word: mouth-watering
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word: mouthy
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word: mushmouth
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word: never look a gift horse in the mouth
sense: Nouns
word: nil by mouth
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word: one's heart in one's mouth
sense: Nouns
word: open one's big mouth
sense: Nouns
word: open one's mouth
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word: out of both sides of one's mouth
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word: out of the mouths of babes
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word: out of the side of one's mouth
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word: palemouth
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word: papermouth
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word: party in one's mouth
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word: pine mouth
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word: pipemouth
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word: plum in one's mouth
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word: potty mouth
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word: put a civil tongue in one's mouth
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word: put one's foot in one's mouth
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word: put one's money where one's mouth is
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word: put the bad mouth on
sense: Nouns
word: put words in someone's mouth
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word: redmouth
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word: rent-a-mouth
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word: river mouth
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word: roof of the mouth
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word: run at the mouth
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word: run off at the mouth
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word: run off one's mouth
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word: run one's mouth
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word: run one's mouth off
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word: sailor mouth
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word: saltmouth
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word: scabby mouth
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word: sea mouth
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word: sh*t your mouth
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word: shoot off at the mouth
sense: Nouns
word: shoot off one's mouth
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word: shoot one's mouth off
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word: shove in the mouth
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word: shut my mouth
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word: shut one's mouth
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word: slipmouth
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word: slitmouth
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word: smallmouth
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word: smartmouth
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word: smart-mouth
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word: smash-mouth
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word: smashmouth
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word: snakemouth
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word: stick one's foot in one's mouth
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word: straight from the horse's mouth
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word: suckermouth
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word: take the bread out of someone's mouth
sense: Nouns
word: take the words out of someone's mouth
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word: tear-mouth
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word: toilet of the mouth
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word: trench mouth
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word: turdmouth
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word: unmouth
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word: warmouth
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word: wash one's mouth out
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word: wash out one's mouth
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word: watch one's mouth
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word: watch your mouth
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word: whore mouth
sense: Nouns
word: word-of-mouth
sense: Nouns
word: word of mouth
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word: wrymouth
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word: yellowmouth
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word: you kiss your father with that mouth
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word: you kiss your girlfriend with that mouth
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word: you kiss your grandfather with that mouth
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word: you kiss your grandmother with that mouth
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word: you kiss your mother with that mouth
sense: Proper nouns
word: Alnmouth
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word: Avonmouth
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word: Axmouth
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word: Bournemouth
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word: Burnmouth
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word: Charmouth
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word: Cockermouth
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word: Creekmouth
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word: Dartmouth
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word: Exmouth
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word: Eyemouth
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word: Falmouth
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word: Greymouth
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word: Humbermouth
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word: Leamouth
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word: Levenmouth
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word: Lossiemouth
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word: Lynemouth
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word: Monmouth
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word: Plattsmouth
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word: Plymouth
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word: Portsmouth
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word: Redesmouth
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word: Sidmouth
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word: Teignmouth
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word: Tweedmouth
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word: Tynemouth
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word: Uskmouth
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word: Wearmouth
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word: Weymouth
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word: Yarmouth
Related terms: word: a closed mouth gathers no feet
word: all mouth and trousers
word: bad taste in one's mouth
word: butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
word: don't look a gift horse in the mouth
word: down in the mouth
word: foam at the mouth
word: hush one's mouth
word: keep a civil tongue in one's mouth
word: keep one's mouth shut
word: lie ill in one's mouth
word: mouth of a sailor
word: one's heart in one's mouth
word: open one's big mouth
word: out of the mouths of babes
word: potty mouth
word: put words in someone's mouth
word: put one's foot in one's mouth
word: put one's money where one's mouth is
word: shoot off at the mouth
word: shut one's mouth
word: straight from the horse's mouth
word: wash one's mouth out
word: watch one's mouth
word: smile