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Mouth   /maʊθ/   Listen
Mouth

noun
(pl. mouths)
1.
The opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge.  Synonyms: oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris.
2.
The externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening.
3.
An opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge).  "They built a fire at the mouth of the cave"
4.
The point where a stream issues into a larger body of water.
5.
A person conceived as a consumer of food.
6.
A spokesperson (as a lawyer).  Synonym: mouthpiece.
7.
An impudent or insolent rejoinder.  Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, sass, sassing.
8.
The opening of a jar or bottle.
verb
(past & past part. mouthed; pres. part. mouthing)
1.
Express in speech.  Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize.  "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
2.
Articulate silently; form words with the lips only.
3.
Touch with the mouth.



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"Mouth" Quotes from Famous Books



... awakened by a dream of suffocation, imprisonment and loss, to find that of such pains I was literally a sufferer. A thick woollen was over my mouth and nose, the knees of some monstrous heavy man were on my chest, cords were being circled and knotted about my hands and arms. My feet were already bound so fast that the slightest movement of them was an agony. Dumb, blind, bound, ...
— The Fool Errant • Maurice Hewlett

... master is my slave; I give command to kill or save, Can grant ten thousand pounds a-year, And make a beggar's brat a peer. But, while I thus my life relate, I only hasten on my fate. My tongue is black, my mouth is furr'd, I hardly now can force a word. I die unpitied and forgot, And on some dunghill ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift

... the compact side, her blond hair cut too short, no makeup on her broad Slavic features. Young, in hard condition, moving with a firm masculine stride. With those tilted gray eyes, that delicately curved nose and wide sullen mouth, she could have been a beauty had she wanted ...
— The Sensitive Man • Poul William Anderson

... me pleasantly. 'I'm very glad to meet you, sir. You'll excuse me not getting up, but I've got a game leg.' He was the copy of his father in features, but dark and sallow where the other was blond. He had just the same narrow head, and stubborn mouth, and honest, quick-tempered eyes. It is the type that makes dashing regimental officers, and earns V.C.s, and gets done in wholesale. I was never that kind. I belonged to the school of ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan

... was more spiteful and jealous than ever, and at dead of night, she stole in to Snow-white and Rosy-red, while she slept, and took away her babe, and threw it into a pitful of snakes. After that she cut Snow-white and Rosy-red in her finger, and smeared the blood over her mouth, and went straight ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent


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