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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mouth
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chiselled features/chin/mouth/nose etc
▪ his chiselled good looks
foot and mouth disease
leaves a nasty taste in...mouth (=makes you feel upset or angry afterwards)
▪ When you feel you’ve been cheated, it always leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.
me and my big mouth (=said when you wish you had not told someone a secret)
mouth agape
▪ Vince watched, his mouth agape in horror.
mouth organ
mouth twisted
▪ His mouth twisted in a humourless smile.
mouth twitched
▪ His mouth twitched slightly, and then he smiled.
mouth ulcer
smack in the mouth/face/gob
▪ Talk like that and I’ll give you a smack in the mouth.
the mouth of a river (=where it joins the sea)
▪ The Statue of Liberty stands at the mouth of the Hudson River.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The final proof, or perhaps the first, is the chub's big mouth and thick white rubbery lips.
▪ Director Jafar Panahi clearly loves children for what they are, big mouths and all.
▪ And to have a big mouth to project.
▪ Having got away with that, why would the President worry about a big-mouth intern?
▪ I generally think of sushi as bite-sized, but at Sushi-Cho you need a big mouth to eat your sushi without embarrassment.
▪ She said she felt like a rabbit caught in the headlights and her teeth felt too big for her mouth.
▪ To her sisters, she is simply a big mouth.
dry
▪ Specific questioning showed symptoms of dry eyes and dry mouth.
▪ He pushed into the dry toothless mouth that constricted like the elastic cuff of a pajama sleeve.
▪ Thirstlessness is usual even with a fever or the dry mouth which is also commonly present.
▪ The tablet treats radiation-induced dry mouth in head and neck cancer patients.
▪ I was alone, dry of mouth, sick at heart.
▪ Violent thirst for ice cold, and refreshing drinks; dry mouth and throat.
▪ I notice that you show jump ... does your horse suffer from a dry mouth condition?
full
▪ The heavily plucked eyebrows and the full mouth, thickly and glossily lipsticked, she found a little distasteful.
▪ Fair-haired wispy girl. Full mouth, high neck, blue-eyed flower girl, his slender pale narcissus.
▪ She had a wide, full mouth, a straight nose, and the same piercing blue eyes as her brother.
▪ He put an arm round her waist, pulled her close, kissed her full on the mouth.
▪ Her face was strong, like Creek statuary, with a full mouth, rounded chin.
▪ A lively, arrogant face, rather square, eyes wide-set, and a full, curving mouth.
▪ So the full mouth fell upon the precious ear to devour it?
open
▪ She had not killed him, she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city.
▪ He turned the open mouth of the urn toward the light and peered in.
▪ Fire came from its open mouth.
▪ Sylvia watched, mesmerised, as Estelle peed over the man's face and into his open mouth.
▪ The eyes were open, the mouth parched and breathless.
▪ Lightly falling raindrops splashed into her open mouth and eyes, skittering across her taut, shiny face.
wide
▪ She, that person, had a wide mouth, with plump lips, like cushions.
▪ The cauldron was lying on the floor, its wide mouth gaping at her like a cannon.
▪ Far ahead he could see a sloping ramp that led up to a wide mouth gaping into a busy street.
▪ They were particularly striking set in his narrow face with its wide mouth.
▪ He looked at her wide mouth, the full lips that kissed him so often and so lusciously.
▪ When she smiled, her wide mouth pushed her cheeks into a series of tiny wrinkles like those in crepe paper.
▪ The girl looked at him, her eyes wide, her mouth open but unable to produce a sound.
▪ Her wide mouth, emphasized with her scarlet lipstick, parted in a glowing smile.
■ NOUN
disease
▪ I suspected that some one was shooting deer, which are feared to transmit foot and mouth disease.
▪ If they have foot and mouth disease, then they would need another month or two months.
▪ The number of cases of foot and mouth disease in Britain is soaring.
▪ It lies at the centre of a viral hot zone, surrounded by farms infected with foot and mouth disease.
▪ Murrain was usually fatal, while hoof and mouth disease permanently weakened animals without causing death.
▪ As if the countryside were not paranoid enough, along comes the spectre of foot and mouth disease.
▪ Another hero with foot and mouth disease, feet of clay and a mouth less than squeaky clean.
▪ Comment &038; Analysis / Foot in mouth disease? / Foot in mouth disease?
river
▪ At Pevensey, reclamation of the adjacent estuary had reduced tidal scouring, which had previously kept the river mouth open.
▪ On Romney Marsh, silting of river mouths was worsened by the problem of peat shrinkage.
▪ On the other hand, once clear of the river mouth, he could sail a clear reach for Key Canaka.
▪ Trent believed that they were less than two miles from the river mouth.
▪ It seems unlikely that 69 could be taken to include river mouths.
▪ Visualising the chart, he calculated the distance to the Makaa river mouth at about twelve miles.
■ VERB
close
▪ This last Idi himself had, scooping it up swiftly, closing the distance between mouth and plate with every spoonful.
▪ Her eyes are closed, her mouth is partly open, breaking the surface of a stormy face.
▪ I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire.
▪ Clinton had barely closed his mouth when the pronouncements began.
▪ His mouth remained closed in favour of the second mouth conveniently nearer the lungs.
▪ Lee didn't take them but he closed his mouth and there was no sound.
▪ Marie started to say something, then closed her mouth.
cover
▪ People covered their mouths in agony.
▪ Bring a cloth to cover your mouth.
▪ He slapped her, swiftly and casually, his hand coming back to cover her mouth in case she might cry out.
▪ Mrs Okano laughs out loud, then covers her mouth with her hand.
▪ Corbett gagged at the bitter-sweet smell of corruption and covered his mouth and nose with his cloak to prevent himself choking.
▪ The son went over and pulled the blankets high to cover his mouth.
▪ She untied the knots and removed the saliva sodden strip of cushion covering from his mouth.
▪ She laughed, covered her mouth.
feed
▪ There's going to be another hungry mouth to feed out of your advertising budgets come October.
▪ More mouths to feed, Malthus contended, meant less food in each mouth.
▪ Very likely there was a nest there, full of hungry little mouths waiting to be fed.
▪ Burdens unloaded, the escort was sent back, horses and extra mouths to feed being undesired.
▪ Inside him seemed to be an unappeasable mouth that said, Feed me, feed me.
▪ In the early years, with four young mouths to feed, they were dirt-poor.
▪ Two had died in infancy, otherwise there would have been nine little mouths to feed.
▪ Now there are many more mouths to feed.
keep
▪ This is all from Gran so keep your mouth shut.
▪ For one, a mistress who kept her mouth shut.
▪ Presumably to keep his mouth shut.
▪ The Mayor keeps staring at his mouth.
▪ And if both prisoners keep their mouths shut, neither will be incarcerated.
▪ It works, too, as long as certain people can be persuaded to keep their mouths shut.
kiss
▪ I kissed her on the mouth and she kissed me back.
▪ He had moved to kiss my mouth, but I had turned my head and he had kissed my cheek.
▪ Hoping desperately that she had not changed her mind, he leaned over and kissed her on the mouth.
▪ Baby Suggs kissed her on the mouth and refused to let her see the children.
▪ She drew him the length of her body, and he glided into her as she kissed his mouth.
▪ Then he kissed her on the mouth.
melt
▪ However, when you meet Sean Young she's disarmingly polite and looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
▪ These eggs melt in your mouth.
▪ Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
▪ The meat is juicy and salty, peppery around the edges, and just soft enough to melt in your mouth.
▪ She may look like a fire-breathing dragon, but butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
▪ From the look of her, butter wouldn't melt in her mouth!
▪ The salmon sushi and the yellowtail sashimi are likely to melt in your mouth, so pay close attention.
put
▪ On an impulse he put one in his mouth and bit timidly.
▪ Then Prager, who bowed like a prince and put his mouth where all those mouths had been-How could he?
▪ The researchers had given me an electric thermometer, a stalk of red plastic, to put in my mouth.
▪ He cut a plug from it, put it in his mouth, wrapped the meat, and took off his glasses.
▪ Franco put his in his mouth and chewed it up, he was teething at the time.
▪ Luckily, I discovered it before I put it into my mouth.
▪ Stop trying to put words into my mouth.
▪ I put some-thing in my mouth and can not taste it.
shoot
▪ So you can't shoot your mouth off.
▪ Each died of a pistol shot to the mouth.
▪ Inside was the body of a man who had been shot through the mouth.
▪ And were a scream to rise in her, would she manage to suppress it before it shot from her mouth?
shut
▪ He shut his mouth and hung his head.
▪ I wanted to scream, to tell the kid5 to shut their mouths and go to hell.
▪ John keeps opening and shutting his mouth like a fish. 64.
▪ When a coffin comes by, we take our hats off and shut our mouths no matter who is in it.
▪ That's not the way I planned it. Shut your mouth till you know the truth.
▪ I nearly replied, but I shut my mouth instead, trusting some other instinct.
▪ He lies on his side with his eyes shut and his mouth open.
▪ With that he shut his mouth firmly.
speak
▪ He turned back towards me, opened his mouth to speak and was gone.
▪ He opens his mouth to speak.
▪ He opened his mouth to speak, but saw the corpse stretched before him and shut it.
▪ That was what his eyes asked, while his mouth spoke hollow questions.
▪ And when she opens her mouth to speak, the words come out in the honeyed tones of the trained singer.
▪ He opened his mouth to speak but Carrie had turned.
▪ His cigar was stuck in the corner of his mouth as he spoke.
watch
▪ We have to watch our mouths and let our kids know that bad words are unacceptable.
▪ It learns to talk, watching the others' mouths.
▪ Then Mavis watched Gordy clamp his mouth shut and crane his neck toward the back of the crowd.
▪ I remember watching her mouth while she talked.
▪ It went up 32 points Thursday, a day Newt watched his mouth.
▪ You can, of course, order fish without chips at the Mermaid and watch the proprietor's mouth open in surprise.
▪ She knew he had spoken, she had watched his mouth move.
wipe
▪ His face lit up suddenly, he wiped his mouth and shook his feet free of the snow cocoon.
▪ He was wiping his mouth with a striped napkin.
▪ When Dan had returned after his drink, wiping his mouth and looking cooler, she had been silent.
▪ He spat and shrugged his shoulder across his lips, wiping his mouth, then he continued his progress across the lawn.
▪ Anne's logic was, ` I refuse to spend half a year watching you guys wipe your mouths on your sleeves.
▪ She wiped her mouth with her hand, then drank and wiped her mouth again.
▪ When he'd finished he wiped his mouth and passed the jar to Joseph.
▪ McAlister wiped his mouth and threw down his napkin and stood.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(straight/right) from the horse's mouth
be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
be foaming at the mouth
▪ One man is foaming at the mouth and moaning.
big mouth
▪ And to have a big mouth to project.
▪ But I kept my big mouth shut.
▪ Director Jafar Panahi clearly loves children for what they are, big mouths and all.
▪ I generally think of sushi as bite-sized, but at Sushi-Cho you need a big mouth to eat your sushi without embarrassment.
▪ If Britain is a body then Essex is the botty and Barnsley's the great big mouth.
▪ The final proof, or perhaps the first, is the chub's big mouth and thick white rubbery lips.
▪ To her sisters, she is simply a big mouth.
butter wouldn't melt in sb's mouth
curl of sb's lip/mouth
▪ David had always treated them with a superior curl of the lip.
dry mouth/skin/lips/hair etc
▪ Finesse's hairspray formulations are non-sticky, and yet give perfect control when applied to dry hair.
▪ For 24 hours a day, the irritation caused by severely dry skin verges on torture.
▪ In places the green is so thick on the page that it develops a gloss like the dried skin of oil paint.
▪ Just as you care for dry skin on the face, the scalp needs a soothing touch ... gentle cleansing and moisturising.
▪ Make sure you use a moisturising shampoo and conditioner for dry hair.
▪ Simply spray Hot Shapes on to clean, dry hair before setting to get instant hold with a glossy finish.
▪ Specific questioning showed symptoms of dry eyes and dry mouth.
▪ There may be a dry burning sensation; a dry mouth, ropy mucus, mouth ulcers.
froth at the mouth
▪ Access problems and the odd bolt on Lakeland mountain crags have had activists frothing at the mouth.
▪ He died at a friend's flat in Rock Ferry after going into convulsions and frothing at the mouth.
▪ He then started frothing at the mouth and had a fit.
▪ Hoomey thought he could easily start frothing at the mouth, the way his colour had drained.
▪ Mortally wounded, frothing at the mouth, grinding his teeth in pain, he chose the floor instead.
▪ Then, last June, she keeled over frothing at the mouth while out partying with pals in a London club.
▪ With a strangled, gargling shriek, Carradine fell over, frothing at the mouth, arms waving.
live from hand to mouth
▪ He lived from hand to mouth making instant resolves every time he opened his mail.
▪ Teacher To live from hand to mouth.
melt in your mouth
▪ Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
▪ Crisp, without the slightest hint of being greasy, it both crunches and melts in your mouth.
▪ From the look of her, butter wouldn't melt in her mouth!
▪ However, when you meet Sean Young she's disarmingly polite and looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
▪ She may look like a fire-breathing dragon, but butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
▪ The meat is juicy and salty, peppery around the edges, and just soft enough to melt in your mouth.
▪ These eggs melt in your mouth.
mobile mouth/face/features
▪ He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face.
▪ I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
▪ They did not show emotions as plainly as more mobile faces did.
my heart was in my mouth
never/don't look a gift horse in the mouth
potty mouth
put words into sb's mouth
▪ I didn't mean that at all -- you're just putting words into my mouth!
▪ Stop putting words into my mouth - I never said I disliked the job.
▪ You're putting words into her mouth. You don't know what she thinks.
▪ Stop trying to put words into my mouth.
put your money where your mouth is
▪ It's time for the governor to put his money where his mouth is.
rosebud mouth/lips
▪ Corrie had a short, snub nose and rosebud mouth, and her eyes were a smoky grey.
▪ I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips, the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub.
▪ The rosebud mouth was painted a glowing coral pink, an exotic contrast with her creamy olive skin, liquid dark eyes.
run off at the mouth
▪ Boyd seems to enjoy running off at the mouth to the press.
▪ That never used to be a fault of his, running off at the mouth.
▪ To what smug labors and running off at the mouth!
shoot your mouth off
▪ All he did was shoot his mouth off a little.
▪ So you can't shoot your mouth off.
shut your mouth/face/trap!
take the words (right) out of sb's mouth
the roof of sb's mouth
▪ An' the third one's brain had bin pulverised - by a blow delivered through the roof of its mouth!
▪ Clench the jaws, as if chewing hard, while pushing your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth.
▪ Her tongue was glued to the roof of her mouth.
▪ I can eat no more of the wild rice which tastes nutty and clings to the roof of my mouth.
▪ I rubbed it across my tongue, the roof of my mouth, and I ground it between my teeth.
▪ It burns the roof of my mouth.
▪ My tongue froze to the roof of my mouth; my eyeballs dropped from their sockets and clattered at my feet.
▪ The brittle wafer dissolving against the roofs of their mouths was their promise of life in a world beyond Holy Hill.
wash your mouth out!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Babies put everything into their mouths.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A grimace distorted her fine mouth.
▪ A smile tugged at his mouth.
▪ He kissed me full on the mouth, one hand at my back, the other straying to my behind.
▪ His mouth gaped and his hands flapped.
▪ The brittle wafer dissolving against the roofs of their mouths was their promise of life in a world beyond Holy Hill.
▪ The hair was already thinning and perhaps to compensate he had grown a luxuriant Groucho moustache which almost hid his mouth.
▪ Try to choose one small enough to go into your mouth whole.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
▪ Instead of quitting the music business she should have learned to use it for singing rather than mouthing off at every opportunity.
▪ Nine times out of 10, a coach cringes when one of his players mouths off about an opponent.
▪ When you are facing a crisis, it doesn't help when players start mouthing off.
■ NOUN
word
▪ Frankie glanced up to see her quietly mouthing the words as lights from the screen flickered across her face.
▪ Zack mouthed the words as I undressed him.
▪ Squirt was mouthing the words, looking down at the text, then up at Mulcahey.
▪ She began mouthing words in venomous silence; she clenched her fists in rage.
■ VERB
close
▪ The snap showed Jennifer with eyes closed and mouth wide open.
▪ She lay on her stomach, tangled in sheets, eyes closed and mouth open.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(straight/right) from the horse's mouth
big mouth
▪ And to have a big mouth to project.
▪ But I kept my big mouth shut.
▪ Director Jafar Panahi clearly loves children for what they are, big mouths and all.
▪ I generally think of sushi as bite-sized, but at Sushi-Cho you need a big mouth to eat your sushi without embarrassment.
▪ If Britain is a body then Essex is the botty and Barnsley's the great big mouth.
▪ The final proof, or perhaps the first, is the chub's big mouth and thick white rubbery lips.
▪ To her sisters, she is simply a big mouth.
butter wouldn't melt in sb's mouth
curl of sb's lip/mouth
▪ David had always treated them with a superior curl of the lip.
dry mouth/skin/lips/hair etc
▪ Finesse's hairspray formulations are non-sticky, and yet give perfect control when applied to dry hair.
▪ For 24 hours a day, the irritation caused by severely dry skin verges on torture.
▪ In places the green is so thick on the page that it develops a gloss like the dried skin of oil paint.
▪ Just as you care for dry skin on the face, the scalp needs a soothing touch ... gentle cleansing and moisturising.
▪ Make sure you use a moisturising shampoo and conditioner for dry hair.
▪ Simply spray Hot Shapes on to clean, dry hair before setting to get instant hold with a glossy finish.
▪ Specific questioning showed symptoms of dry eyes and dry mouth.
▪ There may be a dry burning sensation; a dry mouth, ropy mucus, mouth ulcers.
mobile mouth/face/features
▪ He finds a woman in black lace, with piercing eyes and a mobile face.
▪ I finally found Martin Clunes, the most mobile mouth in show business, lurking behind a large moustache.
▪ They did not show emotions as plainly as more mobile faces did.
my heart was in my mouth
never/don't look a gift horse in the mouth
potty mouth
put words into sb's mouth
▪ I didn't mean that at all -- you're just putting words into my mouth!
▪ Stop putting words into my mouth - I never said I disliked the job.
▪ You're putting words into her mouth. You don't know what she thinks.
▪ Stop trying to put words into my mouth.
put your money where your mouth is
▪ It's time for the governor to put his money where his mouth is.
rosebud mouth/lips
▪ Corrie had a short, snub nose and rosebud mouth, and her eyes were a smoky grey.
▪ I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips, the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub.
▪ The rosebud mouth was painted a glowing coral pink, an exotic contrast with her creamy olive skin, liquid dark eyes.
take the words (right) out of sb's mouth
the roof of sb's mouth
▪ An' the third one's brain had bin pulverised - by a blow delivered through the roof of its mouth!
▪ Clench the jaws, as if chewing hard, while pushing your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth.
▪ Her tongue was glued to the roof of her mouth.
▪ I can eat no more of the wild rice which tastes nutty and clings to the roof of my mouth.
▪ I rubbed it across my tongue, the roof of my mouth, and I ground it between my teeth.
▪ It burns the roof of my mouth.
▪ My tongue froze to the roof of my mouth; my eyeballs dropped from their sockets and clattered at my feet.
▪ The brittle wafer dissolving against the roofs of their mouths was their promise of life in a world beyond Holy Hill.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dana rolled her eyes and mouthed, "I'm bored," from across the room.
▪ These men spent years mouthing the Communist party line.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A man firing looked at him and mouthed something Stephen could not hear.
▪ He mouths something through the glass which she can not hear.
▪ Nine times out of 10, a coach cringes when one of his players mouths off about an opponent.
▪ She mouthed the name at Ottershaw, and he jerked his head towards the kitchen.
▪ She kissed and mouthed his belly, the firm cavity of the navel.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mouth

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.

  2. Hence: An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as:

    1. 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.

    2. The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.

    3. The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.

    4. The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.

    5. The entrance into a harbor.

  3. (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

  4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

    Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
    --Addison.

  5. Cry; voice. [Obs.]
    --Dryden.

  6. Speech; language; testimony.

    That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
    --Matt. xviii. 16.

  7. A wry face; a grimace; a mow. Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. --Shak. 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.)

    1. Pan's pipes. See Pandean.

    2. 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.

      The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
      --Ps. lxiii. 11.

      Whose mouths must be stopped.
      --Titus i. 11.

Mouth

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.

  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.

    Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes.
    --Tennyson.

  3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
    --Sir T. Browne.

  4. To make mouths at. [R.]
    --R. Blair.

Mouth

Mouth \Mouth\, v. i.

  1. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.

    I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at C[ae]sar, till I shake the senate.
    --Addison.

  2. To put mouth to mouth; to kiss. [R.]
    --Shak.

  3. To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.

    Well I know, when I am gone, How she mouths behind my back.
    --Tennyson.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mouth

Old English muþ "mouth, opening, door, gate," from Proto-Germanic *munthaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian muth, Old Norse munnr, Danish mund, Middle Dutch mont, Dutch mond, Old High German mund, German Mund, Gothic munþs "mouth"), with characteristic loss of nasal consonant in Old English (compare tooth, goose), from PIE *mnto-s (cognates: Latin mentum "chin"). In the sense of "outfall of a river" it is attested from late Old English; as the opening of anything with capacity (a bottle, cave, etc.) it is recorded from c.1200. Mouth-organ attested from 1660s.

mouth

c.1300, "to speak," from mouth (n.). Related: Mouthed; mouthing. Old English had muðettan "to blab."

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Wiktionary
mouth

n. (context anatomy English) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To speak; to utter. 2 (context transitive English) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound. 3 (context transitive English) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow. 4 (context obsolete English) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. 5 (context obsolete English) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub. 6 (context obsolete English) To make mouths at.

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WordNet
mouth

  1. v. express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: talk, speak, utter, verbalize, verbalise]

  2. articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word"

  3. touch with the mouth

mouth

  1. n. the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" [syn: oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris]

  2. 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"

  3. 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"

  4. the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water; "New York is at the mouth of the Hudson"

  5. a person conceived as a consumer of food; "he has four mouths to feed"

  6. a spokesperson (as a lawyer) [syn: mouthpiece]

  7. an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass" [syn: sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, lip]

  8. the opening of a jar or bottle; "the jar had a wide mouth"

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Wikipedia
Mouth (song)

"Mouth" is a pop song written by Merril Bainbridge, and produced by Siew for Bainbridge's debut album The Garden (1995). It was released as the album's first single in October 1994 in Australia, then was re-issued on 13 March 1995. It became her biggest hit to date peaking at number-one on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart for six consecutive weeks. The song also became a Top 5 hit in the United States. Filipino-Australian singer Anne Curtis covered the song on her 2011 album Annebisyosa.

Mouth (hieroglyph)

The Ancient Egyptian Mouth hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. D21 for the shape of the mouth, being open, (therefore also implying a use for speech). The word 'mouth' was pronounced *rāˀ.

The mouth hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic consonant letter r.

Mouth

In biological anatomy, commonly referred to as the mouth, under formal names such as the oral cavity, buccal cavity, or in Latin cavum oris, is the opening through which many animals take in food and issue vocal sounds. It is also the cavity lying at the upper end of the alimentary canal, bounded on the outside by the lips and inside by the pharynx and containing in higher vertebrates the tongue and teeth. This cavity is also known as the buccal cavity, from the Latin bucca ("cheek").

Some animal phyla, including vertebrates, have a complete digestive system, with a mouth at one end and an anus at the other. Which end forms first in ontogeny is a criterion used to classify animals into protostome and deuterostome.

Mouth (disambiguation)

The mouth is the orifice through which an organism intakes food.

Mouth may also refer to:

  • River mouth, the source or terminus of a water body
  • "Mouth" (song), a 1995 single by Australian singer and songwriter Merril Bainbridge
  • "Mouth" (Bush song), a 1996 song by British post-grunge band Bush
  • Mouth (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language symbol
  • Mouth, a type of vertex (geometry) in mathematics
  • Mike Matusow (born 1968), professional poker player nicknamed "the Mouth"
  • half of the Dutch pop duo Mouth & MacNeal
  • Marvin "Mouth" McFadden, a character in the TV series One Tree Hill
  • Mouth of Sauron, a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
Mouth (Bush song)

"Mouth" is a 1996 song by British band Bush from their second album Razorblade Suitcase. Though not released as a single, it was remixed by Bush under the pseudonym Stingray for the 1997 remix album Deconstructed and was released as a single on 7 October 1997, due largely in part to it being featured prominently in both the trailer and the 1997 film An American Werewolf in Paris. The Stingray remix was the version that made the song popular and received airplay on radio peaking number 5 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The original version was never a single or been recognized nor was it popular, but a few radio stations managed to play the original version despite it not entering any U.S. or international charts unlike the remix that made the song successful.

Related phrases:

Usage examples of "mouth".

It sometimes seemed the abomination spoke from every mouth, watched from all eyes.

Black and blue halos rimmed her eyes, and her cheeks were abraided, with dried blood at one corner of her mouth.

But the truth would be harder to extract from that stern, scar-twisted mouth, than the abscessed tooth had been.

Ross absently pulled the cigarette from his mouth and looked at it, brow knotted in concentration.

The latter of those mighty streams, which rises at the distance of only thirty miles from the former, flows above thirteen hundred miles, for the most part to the south-east, collects the tribute of sixty navigable rivers, and is, at length, through six mouths, received into the Euxine, which appears scarcely equal to such an accession of waters.

Mount Ida, overlooked the mouth of the Hellespont, which scarcely received an accession of waters from the tribute of those immortal rivulets, the Simois and Scamander.

If he had turned out to be the kind of asshole the name Acer implied, I would have had to crack him in the mouth.

She was always so self-contained, so immaculate, so perfectly poised and turned out that his need to see her with her mouth swollen after love, her hair tangled by his fingers, her eyes languorous and heavy, her breathing quickened, sharp and desirous, was sometimes so great that he ached to reach out and take hold of her.

As he studied her sleeping face, he ached inside to stop the car and take hold of her, to whisper her name against her mouth, to tell her how much he loved her, how much he wanted her, so much that already his body-He cursed under his breath, reminding himself that he was closer now to forty than to twenty and that the turbulent, uncontrollable reaction of his body to the merest thought of touching her was the reaction of an immature boy, not an adult man.

The panic backed up into his throat, leaving an acidy taste in his mouth and a lump obstructing his air.

A little mouth, a delicate little nose, and a face pitted and scarred by the acne of his youth.

Lepi, who though a hunchback was very talented and an excellent actress, was sure of exciting desire by the rare beauty of her eyes and teeth, which latter challenged admiration from her enormous mouth by their regularity and whiteness.

A thin and jaundiced face, deep lines and shaven head, mouth adrip with vomit, staring in horror.

On February 5th the line was advancing, and on the 6th it was known that De Wet was actually within the angle, the mouth of which was spanned by the British line.

For an advertiser, therefore, success can be measured by the amount of word of mouth generated within schools and other teen communities.