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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)
- (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.
- 1987 August 30, Benedict Nightingale, Theater: England's Endless Love Affair with Farce, New York Times (retrieved 22 July 2013):
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