mouth

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 mouth

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
    — "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
  2. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
    — The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.
  3. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
    — But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses.
  4. A loud or overly talkative person. slang
    — My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.
  5. A gossip. slang
    — Siobhán, you know Donna's a mouth.
  6. The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  7. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece. obsolete
    — Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
  8. Speech; language; testimony. obsolete
    — that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
  9. A wry face; a grimace; a mow. obsolete
    — Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.
动词 v.
  1. To speak; to utter. transitive
    — He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
  2. To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame. transitive
    — The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
  3. To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound. intransitive,transitive
    — But words are nothing to the misbelieving -- mere air mouthed into a sound.
  4. Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,figuratively
    — She [Marjorie Taylor Greene] seems to have sincerely believed the lies that shrewder players merely mouthed.
  5. To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling. ambitransitive
    — Those who endeavor to become eloquent by mere imitation of some celebrated model—an actor for instance—often attempt to gain this quality by altering their voice in an unnatural manner. Such a process never produces any thing but mouthing.
  6. To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
    — In this part of the address the position of the principal hanging-valleys was indicated , and it was pointed out that there were two sets, namely those which mouthed into valleys that had been deepened in softer rocks, and those which mouthed into portions of main valleys that had been deepened along shatter-bolts.
  7. To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow. transitive
    — The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
  8. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
    — Sometimes I ate food that the rats had already mouthed over; picking away the edges where they had been eating and using the remainder; not with any good grace, not without qualms; but because I had nothing else to eat.
  9. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
    — They were sucking off whatever adhered to the floating stems and leaves of the plants. They went from plant to plant and mouthed over each branch from base to tip until the whole plant had been gone over.
  10. To carry in the mouth.
    — This transfer system continues until the young are free-swimming, which may be for another 3 or 4 days. Each time they are moved to a new pit, they are mouthed over and spat into their new crèche.
  11. To make mouths at obsolete
    — He drew the cork from his bottle..and mouthed at his companions even while he bowed to them.
  12. To form a mouth or opening in.
    — The front end of the barrel has to be mouthed out conically, so that the various centre points may fit it.
  13. To examine the teeth of.
    — Either at the shipping point or as they leave the summer range, the older ewes are “mouthed out.” That is, their mouths are examined to see if their teeth are good for another year.

词形变化

mouths plural mouths present,singular,third-person mouthing participle,present mouthed participle,past mouthed past mouthe alternative

词汇关系

近义词
bazoo cakehole chops clam clamshell gob hash-trap kisser laughing gear maw mouth mush neb ned north and south oral cavity os piehole potato trap puss sucker trap yap
上位词
body part orifice
衍生词
a closed mouth catches no flies a closed mouth doesn't get fed a closed mouth gathers no feet adder mouth adder's mouth allmouth all mouth all mouth and no pants trousers all mouth and pants all of one's taste is in one's mouth all one's taste is in one's mouth assmouth ass to mouth ass-to-mouth ATM babblemouth bad-mouth bad taste in one's mouth bean mouth bellmouth bemouth big mouth bigmouth birdsmouth bird's mouth blabbermouth blabmouth blackmouth bloodmouth bone-mouth born with a silver spoon in one's mouth bristlemouth broadmouth bucketmouth burning mouth syndrome butter will not melt in someone's mouth butter won't melt in someone's mouth butter would not melt in someone's mouth butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth cavemouth chiselmouth corner of the mouth cottonmouth diarrhea of the mouth dirty mouth don't look a gift horse in the mouth down in the mouth downmouth do you kiss your mother with that mouth dragon's mouth dry mouth fishmouth flannel mouth flannelmouth flannel-mouth flutemouth foam at the mouth foot-and-mouth disease foot-and-mouth foot and mouth foot-in-mouth disease foulmouth frogmouth someone's mouth to God's ears froth at the mouth full-mouth give it mouth goalmouth gutter mouth guttermouth hand-foot-and-mouth disease hand-foot-mouth disease hand to mouth hand-to-mouth headmouth hold one's mouth right hoof-and-mouth disease horse's mouth hush one's mouth jungle mouth keep a civil tongue in one's mouth keep one's mouth shut largemouth laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth laugh out of the other side of one's mouth leave a sour taste in one's mouth lie ill in one's mouth loud mouth loudmouthed loud-mouthed loudmouth loud-mouth lower mouth mean-mouth megamouth melt in the mouth metal mouth meth mouth motor mouth motor-mouth motormouth mouthable mouth bar mouthblown mouth bow mouthbow mouth-breathe mouth breather mouth-breather mouthbreathing mouth breathing mouthbreeder mouthbrooder mouthbrooding mouthcare mouth cavity mouthcoating mouth cone mouth diaper mouthed -mouthed mouther mouthfeel mouth feel mouthfilling mouth-filling mouth-footed mouth-friend mouthfuck mouthfucker mouthful mouthgasm mouth-gasm mouth guard mouthguard mouth harp mouth harpist mouth hook mouthie mouth job mouthless mouthlike mouthline mouthly mouth-made mouth mirror mouth music mouth of a sailor mouth off mouth-organ mouth organ mouth organist mouth-part mouthpart mouthpie mouthpiece mouthpipe mouth-puckeringly mouth-pussy mouth rape mouthrinse mouth-soaping mouth soaping mouthsome mouthsore mouthstick mouth-to-mouth mouth-to-mouth resuscitation mouth ulcer mouthward mouthwards mouth wash mouthwash mouth-wateringly mouthwatering mouth-watering mouthy mushmouth never look a gift horse in the mouth nil by mouth one's heart in one's mouth open one's big mouth open one's mouth out of both sides of one's mouth out of the mouths of babes out of the side of one's mouth palemouth papermouth party in one's mouth pine mouth pipemouth plum in one's mouth potty mouth put a civil tongue in one's mouth put one's foot in one's mouth put one's money where one's mouth is put the bad mouth on put words in someone's mouth redmouth rent-a-mouth river mouth roof of the mouth run at the mouth run off at the mouth run off one's mouth run one's mouth run one's mouth off sailor mouth saltmouth scabby mouth sea mouth sh*t your mouth shoot off at the mouth shoot off one's mouth shoot one's mouth off shove in the mouth shut my mouth shut one's mouth slipmouth slitmouth smallmouth smart-mouth smartmouth smash-mouth smashmouth snakemouth stick one's foot in one's mouth straight from the horse's mouth suckermouth take the bread out of someone's mouth take the words out of someone's mouth tear-mouth toilet of the mouth trench mouth turdmouth unmouth warmouth wash one's mouth out wash out one's mouth watch one's mouth watch your mouth what that mouth do whore mouth word-of-mouth word of mouth wrymouth yellowmouth you kiss your father with that mouth you kiss your girlfriend with that mouth you kiss your grandfather with that mouth you kiss your grandmother with that mouth you kiss your mother with that mouth badmouth mouth the words poormouth
相关词
a closed mouth gathers no feet all mouth and trousers bad taste in one's mouth butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth don't look a gift horse in the mouth down in the mouth foam at the mouth hush one's mouth keep a civil tongue in one's mouth keep one's mouth shut lie ill in one's mouth mouth of a sailor one's heart in one's mouth open one's big mouth out of the mouths of babes potty mouth put words in someone's mouth put one's foot in one's mouth put one's money where one's mouth is shoot off at the mouth shut one's mouth straight from the horse's mouth wash one's mouth out watch one's mouth smile orifice
部分词
grill gums jaw lip palate tooth tongue

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”).
Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk munn (“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 𒈨𒂊𒉌𒄿 (me-e-ni-i /⁠mēni⁠/, “face, cheek”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.
词源 2
From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”).
Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk munn (“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 𒈨𒂊𒉌𒄿 (me-e-ni-i /⁠mēni⁠/, “face, cheek”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.
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