Definition of (mouth) in English English dictionary
- a closed mouth gathers no feet
- One who does not speak can be certain he won't say anything embarrassing
- all mouth and no trousers
- Alternative form of all mouth and trousers
- all mouth and trousers
- Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance
- bad taste in one's mouth
- A feeling of guilt, responsibility, or embarrassment as to cause nausea
Knowing that I had inadvertently aided a killer, left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
- bad taste in one's mouth
- A feeling of disappointment and frustration
- bad taste in one's mouth
- A feeling something is morally despicable as to cause nausea
The more I thought of my orders, the more it left a bad taste in my mouth.
- big mouth
- a person who has a "big mouth" (sense #1)
Shut up, big mouth!.
- big mouth
- the mouth of someone who talks too much, especially by making exaggerated claims or by inappropriately revealing information
Shut your big mouth or I'll shut it for you.
- born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- born rich or in a wealthy family
He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and probably never had to work a day in his life.
- dirty mouth
- The characteristic of regularly using vulgar language or profanity
The comedian lost his gig at the nightclub because he had such a dirty mouth.
- don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- Do not unappreciatively question a gift or handout too closely
- down in the mouth
- Sad or discouraged, especially as indicated by one's facial appearance
He was down in the mouth and low on self-confidence, says his mother, Nina Engel.
- dry mouth
- xerostomia
- foot and mouth
- foot-and-mouth disease
- foot-and-mouth disease
- A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves
So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.
- foot-in-mouth disease
- A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate
Maybe you suffer from foot-in-mouth disease, too, at least occasionally. If so, then I expect you've also learned about the remedy.
- hand-to-mouth
- having barely enough to survive, being close to poverty
She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion.
- horse's mouth
- Source; someone who directly experienced or witnessed something
- hush one's mouth
- to be quiet; to shut up
- keep one's mouth shut
- To keep a secret; to refrain from speaking indiscreetly or carelessly; broadly, to refrain from speaking altogether
Charles has failed to follow the example of his mother, the queen, who has heroically kept her mouth shut for more than 50 years.
- motor mouth
- One who talks incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person
He's such a motor mouth that I couldn't get a word in.
- mouth
- The opening of a creature through which food is ingested
Open your mouth and say 'aah', directed the doctor.
- mouth
- The end of a river out of which water flows
The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.
- mouth
- To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow
The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
- mouth
- An outlet, aperture or orifice
The mouth of a cave.
- mouth
- To speak about something
He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
- mouth
- To make the actions of speech, without producing sound
The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
- mouth
- A loud or overly talkative person
My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.
- mouth breather
- A person who is boorish, stupid, or otherwise unattractive
She's a philosophy major from Brown, now working retail at Niagara Falls, living in a trailer and working for a mouth breather of a boss.
- mouth breather
- A person who routinely inhales and exhales through the mouth, instead of through the nose
Respirations cannot be recorded by this method, if the subject is a mouth breather (as no air flows by the thermistor in the nose).
- mouth breathers
- plural form of mouth breather
- mouth music
- The vocal imitation of instrumental music
- mouth of a sailor
- The characteristic of regularly using vulgar language, especially strong profanities; a person having this characteristic
- mouth off
- To complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner
- mouth off
- To talk impudently, especially to one's superior
- mouth organ
- The panpipes
- mouth organ
- The Jew's harp
- mouth organ
- The harmonica
- mouth organs
- plural form of mouth organ
- mouth-breather
- Alternative spelling of mouth breather
- mouth-to-mouth
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- A first aid technique to return an unconscious person's respiration by pressing the rescuer's mouth against the mouth of the patient and blowing air into his/her lungs
- never look a gift horse in the mouth
- Alternative form of don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- open one's big mouth
- To speak about things, when it would be better to stay silent
Grr, why do I always open my big mouth after doing something wrong.
- party in one's mouth
- An exciting combination of flavours
The distinct flavours—sharp, sweet, spicy, and everything in between—began a party in my mouth.
- potty mouth
- The characteristic of regularly using vulgar language, especially strong profanities
Enough of my bathroom humour, my potty mouth.
- potty mouth
- A person having this characteristic
I’ve turned myself into a potty mouth. I swear. Too much.
- put one's foot in one's mouth
- To misspeak; to say something embarrassing or wrong
I really put my foot in my mouth during the interview.
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- To make or take a bet
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- More generally, to take an obvious stake in the truth of a claim that one is making
- put words in somebody's mouth
- To attribute to somebody something he or she did not say; to claim inaccurately that somebody said or intended something
I hope I'm not putting words in your mouth. Did you just tell me to go home early?.
- put words in someone's mouth
- To imply or state that has said a thing; to erect a straw man
- run off at the mouth
- To talk incessantly (about something)
- sea mouth
- That part of a river, estuary or lagoon which broadens out as it meets the sea
- shoot off at the mouth
- To boast, or brag, or talk too much
Don't let Ziegler shoot off at the mouth without our knowledge.
- shoot off at the mouth
- To disclose some information that was supposed to be secret
- shoot one's mouth off
- To make reckless or exaggerated statements
I never shot my mouth off, I was quiet and I listened.
- shut one's mouth
- To stop talking; to be quiet
Why don’t you just shut your mouth? I’m tired of listening to you.
- straight from the horse's mouth
- firsthand; direct; from the source
This is straight from the horse's mouth.
- straight from the horse's mouth
- Directly from the source; firsthand
If you don't believe me, go talk to him and hear it straight from the horse's mouth. It's true.
- trench mouth
- Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis, a severe bacterial infection of the gums, typically characterized by inflammation, bleeding, deep ulceration, necrotized tissue, pain, fever, enlarged lymph nodes, fatigue, and halitosis
Vincent's angina (or trench mouth) is a distinct form of ulcerative gingivitis.
- wash your mouth out
- A phrase uttered after someone has said a swear word
- watch one's mouth
- To be careful about what one says, especially with regard to disrespectful or profane language
- watch one's mouth
- In the imperative form, used as a warning to avoid or stop using inappropriate language, especially profanity, or disrespectful utterances
- word of mouth
- Verbal means of passing of information
The book didn't need any publicity spots, it was a bestseller solely by word of mouth.
- word-of-mouth
- Alternative spelling of word of mouth
- you kiss your mother with that mouth
- Used to indicate that the other person's speech has become too obscene or vulgar
You kiss your mother with that mouth? mocked the man-who-was-ten. Matthew replied, No, but I kiss yours!.
- born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- (Ev ile ilgili) Born into a wealthy family
- slap the taste out of your mouth
- (Ev ile ilgili) beat the dumb off of you
- slap the taste out of your mouth
- (Ev ile ilgili) try to get someone to stop or not do something that you really do not find appropriate
- mouth
- {v} to mutter, grumble, speak big, chew
- mouth
- {n} the aperture in the head where food is received, an entrance, opening, wry face, cry
- born with a silver spoon in your mouth
- (Atasözü) Have a high social position and wealth from birth
- hand-to-mouth
- (deyim) Having or providing only the bare essentials
A hand-to-mouth existence.
- intra oral mouth guard
- Intra oral mouth guards are dental devices worn on the upper or lower teeth. They can be hard or soft, and may cover all or some of the teeth
- jungle mouth
- (deyim) Smelly breath, unpleasant smell on the breath: "Most people have jungle mouth when they wake up, eh."
- lemonade mouth
- (Edebiyat) Lemonade Mouth is a fiction novel written by Mark Peter Hughes and published in 2007 by Random House
- make someone's mouth water
- (deyim) Create a desire or appetite in someone; be or seem tasty
- mouth guard
- Mouth guards are dental devices worn on the upper or lower teeth. They can be hard or soft, and may cover all or some of the teeth
- mouth harp
- (Muzik) The Jew's harp, jaw harp, mouth harp, or Ozark harp, trump and juice harp, is thought to be one of the oldest musical instruments in the world; a musician apparently playing it can be seen in a Chinese drawing from the 4th century BC. Despite its common English name, and the sometimes used Jew's trump, it has no particular connection with the Jewish people or Judaism. This instrument is native to Asia and used in all tribes of Turkish people in Asia where it is variously referred to as a temir komuz, agiz komuzu or gubuz
- mouth to mouth
- Denoting a method of artificial respiration in which a person breathes into someone's lungs through their mouth
- put your foot in your mouth
- (deyim) Say something without thinking carefully, so that you embarrass or upset someone
I’ve really put my foot in it this time. I didn’t realize that was her husband!.
- put your money where your mouth is
- (deyim) Support something that you believe in, especially by giving money
- put your money where your mouth is
- (deyim) Do something rather than to just talk about it
- straight from the horse's mouth
- (deyim) Directly from the person or place where it began; from a reliable source or a person that cannot be doubted
1. They are going to be married. I got the news straight from the horse's mouth their minister.
2. John found out about the painting straight from the horse's mouth, from the painter himself.
- word of mouth
- Communication by oral rather than written means
The merchant told us that the best customers he had were recommended to him by word of mouth.
- from mouth to mouth
- from one person to another, by word of mouth
- mouth-to-mouth
- form of artificial respiration in which air is breathed directly into a victim's mouth or nose
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- lifesaving method in which a person breathes air directly into the mouth or nose of the injured person
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- If you give someone who has stopped breathing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, you breathe into their mouth to make them start breathing again. a method used to make someone start breathing again by blowing air into their mouth CPR
