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mouth
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)
- (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
- An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
- (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- (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.
- (obsolete) Cry; voice.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
- that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
- (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)
- (transitive) To speak; to utter.
- 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers
- mouthing big phrases
- 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers
- (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
- The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
- To form with the mouth.
- (transitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- To carry in the mouth.
- (obsolete) To make mouths at.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of R. Blair to this entry?)
- To form a mouth or opening in.
- (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)
- mouth
Descendants
- English: mouth
- Scots: mooth
- Yola: meouth, moweth
References
- “m?uth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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perioral
English
Etymology
peri- +? oral
Adjective
perioral (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Surrounding the mouth
Translations
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