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badmouth

English

Alternative forms

  • bad-mouth

Etymology

From a Mande term, perhaps Vai [Term?] or Mandinka [Term?], which entered English via Gullah [Term?]. Compare Japanese ???? [waruguchi] ("to badmouth"), which is a compound of ??? [waru] ("bad, wicked") and ??? [kuchi] ("mouth").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?bæd.ma??/

Verb

badmouth (third-person singular simple present badmouths, present participle badmouthing, simple past and past participle badmouthed)

  1. (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
    • 1987 August 30, Benedict Nightingale, Theater: England's Endless Love Affair with Farce, New York Times (retrieved 22 July 2013):
      . . . those cross-Atlantic aficionados who persistently idolize the British theater and bad-mouth Broadway.

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