different between mouth vs douth

English

Etymology

From Middle English mouth, from Old English m?þ (“mouth, opening, door, gate”), from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian müd, müth, müss (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian munn (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Gothic ???????????????????? (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mand? (“to chew”), Ancient Greek ?????? (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and ???????? (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite [script needed] (m?ni, “chin”).

Pronunciation

(noun):

• enPR: mouth, IPA^(key): /ma??/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m???/
• Rhymes: -a??

(verb):

• enPR: mouth, IPA^(key): /ma?ð/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /m???/, /ma?ð/
• Rhymes: -a?ð

Noun

mouth (plural mouths)

1. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
2. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.

3. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
4. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.

5. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
6. (obsolete) 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.

7. (obsolete) Cry; voice.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.

   • that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established

9. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:mouth

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: mofo

Derived terms

Pages starting with “mouth”.

Translations

Verb

mouth (third-person singular simple present mouths, present participle mouthing, simple past and past participle mouthed)

1. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
   • 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers

     mouthing big phrases

2. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.

   The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.

3. To form with the mouth.
4. (transitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
5. To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
6. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.

7. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
8. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
9. To carry in the mouth.
10. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of R. Blair to this entry?)

11. To form a mouth or opening in.
12. (sheep husbandry) To examine the teeth of.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• orifice

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mouþ, muþ, mouthe, muð, mouþe

Etymology

From Old English m?þ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu??/
• Rhymes: -u??

Noun

mouth (plural mouths)

1. mouth

Descendants

• English: mouth
• Scots: mooth
• Yola: meouth, moweth

References

• “m?uth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: douth, IPA^(key): /da??/
• Rhymes: -a??

Etymology 1

From Middle English douth, douthe, duweðe (“body of retainers, people, might, dignity, worth”), from Old English duguþ (“manhood, host, multitude, troops”), from Proto-Germanic *dugunþ? (“power, competency, notefulness, virtue”), from *dugan? (“to be useful”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewg?- (“to be ready, be sufficient”). Cognate with North Frisian døgd, døged (“ability, good deed”), Dutch deugd (“virtue”), German Tugend (“virtue”), Swedish dygd (“virtue”), Icelandic dygð, dyggð (“virtue”). Related to dow, doughty.

Noun

douth (usually uncountable, plural douths)

1. (obsolete) Virtue; excellence; atheldom; nobility; power; riches.
2. (obsolete) A group of people, especially an army or retinue.
3. (dialectal) Reliability; ease; security; shelter.

   There's no^[sic] much douth in a wire fence.

Adjective

douth (comparative more douth, superlative most douth)

1. (dialectal) Snug; comfortable; in easy circumstances.

Etymology 2

Noun

douth (plural douths)

1. Alternative form of dought

Middle English

Alternative forms

• douthe, duthe, douþe
• (Early ME) dugeð, duweðe, du?eðe, do?eðe, du?eþe, duheðe, duhþe, du?d

Etymology

From Old English duguþ, from Proto-Germanic *dugunþ?.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /?du???/
• IPA^(key): /du??/

Noun

douth (uncountable)

1. A group, band, or company of people:
   1. The personal military force of a ruler or potentate.
   2. Any group of armed people; an army or troop.
2. (rare) Potency, might, worth.
3. (rare) An individual person.
4. (rare) Something beneficial; a boon.
5. (rare) The state of being mature.

Related terms

• doughty

Descendants

• English: douth
• Scots: duthe, douth

References

• “douth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.