to put in one’s mouth?

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Posted: 22 August 2002 12:44 PM

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Is there a word meaning "to put in one’s mouth?" I can’t say "what did the baby just eat?" when the baby didn’t eat it—he just (whatever the word is)ed it. I’ve been using "mouthed," but I thought that implies feeling with one’s mouth; I’m looking for the word that refers simply to the placement of the object in the mouth.

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Posted: 05 October 2002 12:43 PM

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[quote author=KatyBr link=board=what;num=1030067050;start=0#2 date=10/05/02 at 17:32:20]I believe mouthed is the correct word as the baby Is feeling with his/her mouth. The mouth is one of the first way a baby learns intimate details of its world. Does it taste good? Is it sharp, dull, fuzzy? Does it wiggle all funny (an insect) or is it dead in the mouth? Taste buds, all new and fun, are the best formed sense in a young creature. ??? IMHO

Oh, I am all too familiar with what the baby is doing! (Third baby; many coins, buttons, marbles, woodchips, beetles, fuzzballs, bottlecaps, broken crayons, pebbles, stickers, wrappers, checkers, Barbie shoes, walnuts, dropped potato peels, onion skins, wads of paper and Unidentified Floor Objects have been fished from all three). I was just looking for the word. I also got some answers on a post in the Suggest a Word column under "a few ideas." (before I had seen this section).

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Posted: 06 October 2002 10:52 AM

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[quote author=KatyBr link=board=what;num=1030067050;start=0#4 date=10/05/02 at 22:17:21]you must be sooooo busy.:D

I homeschool too. ;D

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