'To put one's foot in one's mouth' definitions:

Definition of 'To put one's foot in one's 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]