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English

Alternative forms

• throate, throte (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrut? (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”) (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Swedish trut.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???o?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

throat (plural throats)

1. The front part of the neck.
2. The gullet or windpipe.

3. A narrow opening in a vessel.

4. Station throat.
5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

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6. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
7. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
8. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

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9. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
10. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Synonyms

• (gullet): esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British)
• (windpipe): trachea, windpipe
• (narrow opening in a vessel): neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)

Antonyms

• (end of a gaff next to the mast): peak

Derived terms

Related terms

• throttle

Translations

Verb

throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)

1. (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
   • 1911, Paul Wilstach, Thais, "the Story of a Sinner who Became a Saint and a Saint who Sinned": A Play in Four Acts, page 17:

     He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky.

   • 1921, Harry Charles Witwer, The Rubyiat of a Freshman, page 31

     As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ...

   • 2017, Alexis Debary, Arab Nights: Post 9/11 Thriller set in Tunisia (?ISBN):

     Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French. The girl looks devastated.

   to throat threats
2. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
   • 1995, Kyle Stone, Hot bauds: a selection of steamy BBS writings, Badboy

     The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.

   • 2017, Brian Patrick Davis, Songs About Boys (?ISBN):

     His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth.

3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Further reading

• throat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Throat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• throat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• throat in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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.

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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.

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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.