'Mouth' definitions:
Definition of 'mouth'
(from WordNet)
noun
The opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" [syn: mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris]
noun
The externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening; "she wiped lipstick from her mouth"
noun
An opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge); "he rode into the mouth of the canyon"; "they built a fire at the mouth of the cave"
noun
The point where a stream issues into a larger body of water; "New York is at the mouth of the Hudson"
noun
A person conceived as a consumer of food; "he has four mouths to feed"
noun
A spokesperson (as a lawyer) [syn: mouthpiece, mouth]
noun
An impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass" [syn: sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, lip, mouth]
noun
The opening of a jar or bottle; "the jar had a wide mouth"
verb
Express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise]
verb
Articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word"
verb
Touch with the mouth
Definition of 'Mouth'
From: GCIDE
- Mouth \Mouth\ (mouth), n.; pl. Mouths (mou[th]z). [OE. mouth, mu[thorn], AS. m[=u][eth]; akin to D. mond, OS. m[=u][eth], G. mund, Icel. mu[eth]r, munnr, Sw. mun, Dan. mund, Goth. mun[thorn]s, and possibly L. mentum chin; or cf. D. muil mouth, muzzle, G. maul, OHG. m[=u]la, Icel. m[=u]li, and Skr. mukha mouth.]
- 1. The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: (a) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. (b) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den. (c) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged. (d) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged. (e) The entrance into a harbor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece. [1913 Webster]
- Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Cry; voice. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Speech; language; testimony. [1913 Webster]
- That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. --Matt. xviii. 16. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A wry face; a grimace; a mow. [1913 Webster]
- Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Down at the mouth or Down in the mouth, chapfallen; of dejected countenance; depressed; discouraged. [Obs. or Colloq.]
- Mouth friend, one who professes friendship insincerely. --Shak.
- Mouth glass, a small mirror for inspecting the mouth or teeth.
- Mouth honor, honor given in words, but not felt. --Shak.
- Mouth organ. (Mus.) (a) Pan's pipes. See Pandean. (b) An harmonicon.
- Mouth pipe, an organ pipe with a lip or plate to cut the escaping air and make a sound.
- To stop the mouth, to silence or be silent; to put to shame; to confound.
- To put one's foot in one's mouth, to say something which causes one embarrassment.
- To run off at the mouth, to speak excessively.
- To talk out of both sides of one's mouth, to say things which are contradictory. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. --Ps. lxiii. 11. [1913 Webster]
- Whose mouths must be stopped. --Titus i. 11. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mouth'
From: GCIDE
- Mouth \Mouth\, v. i.
- 1. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant. [1913 Webster]
- I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To put mouth to mouth; to kiss. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt. [1913 Webster]
- Well I know, when I am gone, How she mouths behind my back. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mouth'
From: GCIDE
- Mouth \Mouth\ (mou[th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mouthed (mou[th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Mouthing.]
- 1. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner; as, mouthing platitudes. "Mouthing big phrases." --Hare. [1913 Webster]
- Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make mouths at. [R.] --R. Blair. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mouth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- access,
- announce,
- aperture,
- arm,
- armlet,
- articulate,
- audacity,
- back talk,
- backchat,
- bay,
- bayou,
- bazoo,
- be hypocritical,
- belt,
- betray,
- bight,
- bite,
- blandish,
- blow,
- blubber,
- blue,
- board-and-roomer,
- boarder,
- boasting,
- boca,
- boldness,
- bombast,
- bon vivant,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- bragging,
- brashness,
- Brillat-Savarin,
- cannibal,
- cant,
- carnivore,
- champ,
- chaps,
- chatter,
- chaw,
- cheek,
- chew,
- chew the cud,
- chew up,
- chomp,
- chops,
- claptrap,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- connoisseur of food,
- consumer,
- converse,
- cove,
- creek,
- crestfallen,
- crow,
- debate,
- debouch,
- debouchment,
- declaim,
- dejected,
- delta,
- demagogue,
- despondent,
- diner,
- diner-out,
- disclose,
- discover,
- disheartened,
- dispirited,
- disrespect,
- divulge,
- door,
- doorway,
- downcast,
- drone,
- eater,
- eater-out,
- elocute,
- embouchure,
- entrance,
- entree,
- entry,
- enunciate,
- epicure,
- estuary,
- euripus,
- exit,
- express,
- face,
- feeder,
- fjord,
- flesh-eater,
- flippancy,
- freshness,
- frith,
- fruitarian,
- fustian,
- gab,
- gabble,
- gas,
- gasconade,
- gastronome,
- gate,
- gateway,
- gibber,
- give away,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- glutton,
- gnash,
- gnaw,
- gob,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- grain-eater,
- graminivore,
- granivore,
- grimace,
- grind,
- gulf,
- gum,
- gut,
- harangue,
- harbor,
- herbivore,
- high liver,
- hold forth,
- hot air,
- hungry mouth,
- idle talk,
- impertinence,
- impudence,
- inlet,
- insolence,
- jabber,
- jaw,
- jaws,
- jowls,
- kisser,
- kyle,
- lactovegetarian,
- lap,
- lick,
- lip,
- lips,
- loch,
- Lucullus,
- luncher,
- make a face,
- make a mouth,
- man-eater,
- mandibles,
- masticate,
- maunder,
- maw,
- maxilla,
- meat-eater,
- melancholy,
- mop,
- mop and mow,
- moue,
- mouthing,
- mouthpiece,
- mow,
- mug,
- mumble,
- munch,
- murmur,
- mush,
- mutter,
- muzzle,
- narrow,
- narrow seas,
- narrows,
- natural harbor,
- nibble,
- omnivore,
- omophagist,
- opening,
- oral cavity,
- orate,
- orifice,
- out-herod Herod,
- outfall,
- outlet,
- pantophagist,
- passage,
- passageway,
- patter,
- perorate,
- pertness,
- phytophage,
- picnicker,
- plant-eater,
- play the hypocrite,
- pout,
- prate,
- predacean,
- premaxilla,
- presumptuousness,
- pronounce,
- puff,
- pull a face,
- rabble-rouse,
- rant,
- rave,
- reach,
- read,
- recite,
- reek of piety,
- render lip service,
- road,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- rodomontade,
- rudeness,
- ruminate,
- sad,
- sass,
- sauce,
- sauciness,
- say,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- soapbox,
- sob,
- soft-soap,
- sorrowful,
- sound,
- speak,
- speak incoherently,
- speaker,
- spiel,
- spill,
- splutter,
- spokesperson,
- spokeswoman,
- spout,
- sputter,
- stoma,
- strait,
- straits,
- susurrate,
- sweet-talk,
- talk,
- tell,
- tongue,
- trap,
- trencherman,
- tub-thump,
- unhappy,
- utter,
- vaunt,
- vegetarian,
- vent,
- vocalize,
- voice,
- wag the tongue,
- way,
- way in,
- way out,
- whisper,
- yap
Words containing 'Mouth'
- Down at the mouth,
- Down in the mouth,
- Mouthed,
- Mouthful,
- Mouthfuls,
- Mouthing,
- Mouths,
- mouth off,
- By word of mouth,
- Mouth friend,
- Mouth glass,
- Mouth honor,
- Mouth organ,
- Mouth pipe,
- Plaice mouth,
- Pouch mouth,
- The mouth waters,
- To flap in the mouth,
- To have the heart in the mouth,
- To run off at the mouth,
- To stop the mouth,
- big mouth,
- canker of the mouth,
- dragon's mouth,
- dry mouth,
- foam at the mouth,
- foaming at the mouth,
- foul mouthed,
- froth at the mouth,
- frothing at the mouth,
- hand to mouth,
- mouth blowpipe,
- mouth bow,
- mouth harp,
- mouth hole,
- mouth watering,
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,
- roof of the mouth,
- trench mouth,
- word of mouth,
- Bell-mouthed,
- Bird's-mouth,
- Black-mouthed,
- Deep-mouthed,
- Flap-mouthed,
- Foot and mouth disease,
- Foul-mouthed,
- Hard-mouthed,
- Honey-mouthed,
- Hot-mouthed,
- Loud-mouthed,
- Meal-mouthed,
- Mealy-mouthed,
- Mealy-mouthness,
- Mouth-footed,
- Mouth-made,
- Pouch-mouthed,
- To laugh out of the other corner of the mouth,
- To laugh out of the other side of the mouth,
- To live from hand to mouth,
- Tut-mouthed,
- green adder's mouth,
- hand-to-mouth,
- large-mouthed,
- loud-mouth,
- mouth-watering,
- narrow-mouthed,
- shoot one's mouth off,
- shut one's mouth,
- word-of-mouth,
- To look a gift horse in the mouth,
- To talk out of both sides of one's mouth,
- big-mouthed buffalofish,
- foot-and-mouth disease,
- hoof-and-mouth disease,
- keep one's mouth shut,
- red-mouth grunt,
- small-mouthed buffalofish,
- To put one's foot in one's mouth,
- eastern narrow-mouthed toad,
- western narrow-mouthed toad