Mouthed
[maʊðd] or [maʊθt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Mouth
(a.) Furnished with a mouth.
(a.) Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
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Examples
- You are an ignorant foul-mouthed dago. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The foul-mouthed fellow at the top. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He moved a step or two till he was in front of Will, and said with full-mouthed haste, Excuse me, Mr. Ladislaw--was your mother's name Sarah Dunkirk? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- So he went off cursing, like the foul-mouthed blackguard that he was, and swearing that he would have her yet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Maurice stared at him in open-mouthed astonishment, but in another moment Justinian vanished. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What, cried out the many-mouthed mob, you are another lord, I suppose? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They were watching, open-eyed and open-mouthed, the thread of dark-red blood which wakened them up from their trance of passion. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Ah, but would their kisses be fine and powerful as the kisses of the firm-mouthed master? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Surely all Corsica was open-mouthed! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring disposition. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now, you one-mouthed fool, mind yourself and don't obstruct me. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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