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mouth
/maʊθ/
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What does mouth mean?
noun
- The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- 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.
- An outlet, aperture or orifice.
More meanings (19)
noun
- (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
- (slang) A gossip.
- The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
- (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
- (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
verb
- To speak; to utter.
- To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.
- To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
- (figuratively) Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely.
- To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- To carry in the mouth.
- To form a mouth or opening in.
- To examine the teeth of.
- (obsolete) To make mouths at
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IPA pronunciation
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In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.
She was a dark child, with brown curly hair, like a brunette doll’s, a coaxing little red mouth, and round, yellow-brown eyes.
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Instead, she was a tiny scrap of a woman, with soft pink cheeks, mild blue eyes, and a mouth like a baby’s.
With the point of his knife he made two round eyes, a three-cornered nose, and a mouth shaped like a new moon.
Her mouth would be securely gagged, like that of the Jew, and she, a helpless prisoner in the hands of Chauvelin’s men.