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mouthing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mouth \Mouth\ (mou[th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mouthed (mou[th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Mouthing.]
To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
--Dryden.-
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. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
--Sir T. Browne.To make mouths at. [R.]
--R. Blair.
Wiktionary
n. The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language. vb. (present participle of mouth English)
Wikipedia
In sign language, mouthing is the production of visual syllables with the mouth while signing. Although not present in all sign languages, and sometimes not in signers at all levels of education, where it does occur it may be an essential (that is, phonemic) element of a sign, distinguishing signs which would otherwise be homophones; in other cases a sign may seen to be flat and incomplete without mouthing even if it is unambiguous.
Mouthing often originates from oralist education, where sign and speech are used together. Thus mouthing may preserve an often abbreviated rendition of the spoken translation of a sign. In educated Ugandan Sign Language, for example, where both English and Ganda are influential, the word for , Av", is accompanied by the mouthed syllable nyo, from Ganda nnyo 'very', and , jO*[5]v", is accompanied by vu, from Ganda onvuma. Similarly, the USL sign , t55bf, is mouthed fsh, an abbreviation of English finish, and , }HxU, is mouthed df.
However, mouthing may also be iconic, as in the word for (of food or drink) in ASL, UtCbf", where the mouthing suggests something hot in the mouth and does not correspond to the English word "hot".
Mouthing is an essential element of cued speech and simultaneous sign and speech, both for the direct instruction of oral language and to disambiguate cases where there is not a one-to-one correspondence between sign and speech. However, mouthing does not always reflect the corresponding spoken word; when signing 'thick' in Auslan, for example, the mouthing is equivalent to spoken fahth.
In a 2008 edition of Sign Language & Linguistics, there is a study that discusses similarities and differences in mouthing between three different European sign languages. It goes into detail about mouthings, adverbial mouth gestures, semantically empty mouth gestures, enacting mouth gestures, and whole face gestures.
Usage examples of "mouthing".
Undiscriminatingly friendly as always, he butted his head under my chin, nuzzled into my chest, and began mouthing my knuckles, his sharp little baby teeth making small dents in my skin.
We were sharks pursuing each other, mouthing any parts we could catch.
She put down the champagne, leaned forward and hugged him about the hips, mouthing him with relish.
The three other Tyrin followed them, curiously each sinking to his knees and mouthing a nipple.
Peter felt heat on his face when he saw that several of the women lay on their bellies between the legs of pink men, each with a cock in her mouth, but eyes turned up to the school lesson -- except for one or two who lay reversed atop pink men, also mouthing cocks and presumably enjoying lingual play in their own thighs.
You are the only frank woman I know, the only woman who looks on the practical side of matters without beclouding the issue with mouthings about sin and morality.
And now from you, creature whom my glorious masters of Zoz would exterminate like a buzzing fly, like a disease germ, I hear these senseless mouthings of defamation.
I have no patience with the obsolete doctrine that there is such a legal entity as seduction by female, despite the mouthings of certain so-called jurists who disgrace the bench of a certain nearby city.
There had been power, not these tame mouthings of the doings of their God who had meddled about, turning water into wine, which would be blasphemy anyway to the gifts of the Goddess.
Sinnall cut off the indignant mouthings of Samoth by slamming the door.
Before Mybaloë could question or address him, he began to pour forth a torrent of dreadful mouthings, intermingled with maledictions and vituperations.
And it's only because of your grandfather, because Lord Hiro-matsu's my oldest friend, that I've listened patiently to your ill-mannered mouthings so far.
Dr Armitage made no written record of its mouthings, but asserts confidently that nothing in English was uttered.