mouth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
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 Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk 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 𒈨𒂊𒉌𒄿 (me-e-ni-i /⁠mēni⁠/, “face, cheek”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: mouths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
pos: noun
examples: "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
She kissed him on the mouth.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.
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.
gloss: An outlet, aperture or orifice.
pos: noun
examples: 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.’
But why give a tunnel mouth any decoration whatsoever?
gloss: A loud or overly talkative person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.
gloss: A gossip.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Siobhán, you know Donna's a mouth.
gloss: The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
pos: noun
gloss: A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
gloss: Speech; language; testimony.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
gloss: A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.
Synonyms: bazoo
cakehole
chops
clam
clamshell
gob
hash-trap
kisser
laughing gear
maw
mouth
mush
neb
ned
north and south
oral cavity
os
piehole
potato trap
puss
sucker
trap
yap
Related words: a closed mouth gathers no feet
all mouth and trousers
bad taste in one's mouth
butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
down in the mouth
foam at the mouth
hush one's mouth
keep a civil tongue in one's mouth
keep one's mouth shut
lie ill in one's mouth
mouth of a sailor
one's heart in one's mouth
open one's big mouth
out of the mouths of babes
potty mouth
put words in someone's mouth
put one's foot in one's mouth
put one's money where one's mouth is
shoot off at the mouth
shut one's mouth
straight from the horse's mouth
wash one's mouth out
watch one's mouth
smile
Derived words: a closed mouth catches no flies
a closed mouth doesn't get fed
a closed mouth gathers no feet
adder mouth
adder's mouth
allmouth
all mouth
all mouth and no pants
trousers
all mouth and pants
all of one's taste is in one's mouth
all one's taste is in one's mouth
assmouth
ass to mouth
ass-to-mouth
ATM
babblemouth
bad-mouth
bad taste in one's mouth
bean mouth
bellmouth
bemouth
big mouth
bigmouth
birdsmouth
bird's mouth
blabbermouth
blabmouth
blackmouth
bloodmouth
bone-mouth
born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
bristlemouth
broadmouth
bucketmouth
burning mouth syndrome
butter will not melt in someone's mouth
butter won't melt in someone's mouth
butter would not melt in someone's mouth
butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
cavemouth
chiselmouth
corner of the mouth
cottonmouth
diarrhea of the mouth
dirty mouth
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
down in the mouth
downmouth
do you kiss your mother with that mouth
dragon's mouth
dry mouth
fishmouth
flannel mouth
flannelmouth
flannel-mouth
flutemouth
foam at the mouth
foot-and-mouth disease
foot-and-mouth
foot and mouth
foot-in-mouth disease
foulmouth
frogmouth
someone's mouth to God's ears
froth at the mouth
full-mouth
give it mouth
goalmouth
gutter mouth
guttermouth
hand-foot-and-mouth disease
hand-foot-mouth disease
hand to mouth
hand-to-mouth
headmouth
hold one's mouth right
hoof-and-mouth disease
horse's mouth
hush one's mouth
jungle mouth
keep a civil tongue in one's mouth
keep one's mouth shut
largemouth
laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
leave a sour taste in one's mouth
lie ill in one's mouth
loud mouth
loudmouthed
loud-mouthed
loudmouth
loud-mouth
lower mouth
mean-mouth
megamouth
melt in the mouth
metal mouth
meth mouth
motor mouth
motor-mouth
motormouth
mouthable
mouth bar
mouthblown
mouth bow
mouthbow
mouth-breathe
mouth breather
mouth-breather
mouthbreathing
mouth breathing
mouthbreeder
mouthbrooder
mouthbrooding
mouthcare
mouth cavity
mouthcoating
mouth cone
mouth diaper
mouthed
-mouthed
mouther
mouthfeel
mouth feel
mouthfilling
mouth-filling
mouth-footed
mouth-friend
mouthfuck
mouthfucker
mouthful
mouthgasm
mouth-gasm
mouth guard
mouthguard
mouth harp
mouth harpist
mouth hook
mouthie
mouth job
mouthless
mouthlike
mouthline
mouthly
mouth-made
mouth mirror
mouth music
mouth of a sailor
mouth off
mouth-organ
mouth organ
mouth organist
mouth-part
mouthpart
mouthpie
mouthpiece
mouthpipe
mouth-puckeringly
mouth-pussy
mouth rape
mouthrinse
mouth-soaping
mouth soaping
mouthsome
mouthsore
mouthstick
mouth-to-mouth
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
mouth ulcer
mouthward
mouthwards
mouth wash
mouthwash
mouth-wateringly
mouthwatering
mouth-watering
mouthy
mushmouth
never look a gift horse in the mouth
nil by mouth
one's heart in one's mouth
open one's big mouth
open one's mouth
out of both sides of one's mouth
out of the mouths of babes
out of the side of one's mouth
palemouth
papermouth
party in one's mouth
pine mouth
pipemouth
plum in one's mouth
potty mouth
put a civil tongue in one's mouth
put one's foot in one's mouth
put one's money where one's mouth is
put the bad mouth on
put words in someone's mouth
redmouth
rent-a-mouth
river mouth
roof of the mouth
run at the mouth
run off at the mouth
run off one's mouth
run one's mouth
run one's mouth off
sailor mouth
saltmouth
scabby mouth
sea mouth
sh*t your mouth
shoot off at the mouth
shoot off one's mouth
shoot one's mouth off
shove in the mouth
shut my mouth
shut one's mouth
slipmouth
slitmouth
smallmouth
smart-mouth
smartmouth
smash-mouth
smashmouth
snakemouth
stick one's foot in one's mouth
straight from the horse's mouth
suckermouth
take the bread out of someone's mouth
take the words out of someone's mouth
tear-mouth
toilet of the mouth
trench mouth
turdmouth
unmouth
warmouth
wash one's mouth out
wash out one's mouth
watch one's mouth
watch your mouth
what that mouth do
whore mouth
word-of-mouth
word of mouth
wrymouth
yellowmouth
you kiss your father with that mouth
you kiss your girlfriend with that mouth
you kiss your grandfather with that mouth
you kiss your grandmother with that mouth
you kiss your mother with that mouth
badmouth
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