Mouth Definition

mouth
mouthed, mouthing, mouths
noun
mouths
The opening through which an animal takes in food; specif., the cavity, or the entire structure, in the head of any of the higher animals which contains the teeth and tongue and through which sounds are uttered.
Webster's New World
The cavity lying at the upper end of the digestive tract, bounded on the outside by the lips and inside by the oropharynx and containing in humans and certain other vertebrates the tongue, gums, and teeth.
American Heritage Medicine
The mouth regarded as the organ of chewing and tasting.
Webster's New World
The mouth regarded as the organ of speech.
Webster's New World
The opening to any cavity or canal in an organ or a bodily part.
American Heritage Medicine
verb
mouthed, mouthing, mouths
To speak in an affected or oratorical manner; declaim.
Webster's New World
To say, esp. in an affected, oratorical, or insincere manner; declaim.
Webster's New World
To form (a word) with the mouth soundlessly.
Webster's New World
To take or put into the mouth.
Webster's New World
To make a wry face by twisting the mouth; grimace.
Webster's New World
idiom
down in
  • Discouraged; sad; dejected.
American Heritage
down in the mouth
  • depressed; unhappy; discouraged
Webster's New World
(have) a big mouth
  • (to have) a tendency to talk loudly, excessively, indiscreetly, or impudently
Webster's New World
mouth off
  • to talk loudly, excessively, indiscreetly, or impudently
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mouth

Noun

Singular:
mouth
Plural:
mouths

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Origin of Mouth

  • From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ (“mouth, opening, door, gate"), from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth"), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth"). Cognate with Scots mouth (“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"), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth"), Icelandic munnur (“mouth"), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth"), Latin mentum (“chin") and mandō (“to chew"), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth") and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew"), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard"), Welsh mant (“jawbone"), Hittite [script?] (mÄ“ni, “chin").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English mūth men-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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