Mouth

Definition: Mouth

Mouth

Noun

1. The opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy".

2. The externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening; "she wiped lipstick from her mouth".

3. An opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge); "he rode into the mouth of the canyon"; "they built a fire at the mouth of the cave".

4. The point where a stream issues into a larger body of water; "New York is at the mouth of the Hudson".

5. A person conceived as a consumer of food; "he has four mouths to feed".

6. (informal) a spokesperson (as a lawyer).

7. An impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass".

8. The opening of a jar or bottle; "the jar had a wide mouth".

Verb

1. Express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense".

2. Articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word".

3. Touch with the mouth.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mouth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

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Geography

Literature

Medicine

Metallurgy

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mouth

Beginning

Entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule; propylaeum; skirts, border; (edge).

Edge

Noun: edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip, muzzle.

Egress

Outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; (opening); path; (way); conduit; airpipe.

Gulf Lake

Noun: land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet; frith, firth, ostiary, mouth; lagune, lagoon; indraught; cove, creek; natural harbor; roads; strait; narrows; Euripus; sound, belt, gut, kyles; continental slope, continental shelf.

Ingress

Inlet; way in; mouth, door; (opening); barway; path; (way); conduit; immigrant.

Opening

Outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle; placket.

Receptacle

Stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard, breadbasket; mouth.

Stammering

Mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay.

Voice

Verb: utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry; (shout); ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.

Crosswords: Mouth

On the mouth. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Doug! I think I just felt your tongue in my mouth. (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner)

I love your crooked little mouth. (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

Anything you put in my mouth you're gonna lose (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

I recommend sticking your foot in your mouth at anytime (You Learn; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

I confess i watch your mouth move baby when you're speaking (Sexual (Li Da Di); performing artist: Amber)

Love me mouth to mouth now (Drowning; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

Let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts (Rivers Of Babylon; performing artist: Boney M)

She'll let you in her mouth (SECRET GARDEN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him. (references; author: Jamaican Proverb)

When wrathful words arise, a closed mouth is soothing. (references; author: Irish Proverb)

Anger opens the mouth and shuts the mind. (references; author: unknown)

An open mind does not always require an open mouth. (references; author: unknown)

Digital Wisdom: Affirm brain online before opening mouth.com. (references; author: unknown)

The Haunted Mouth (1974)

Out of the Tiger's Mouth (1962)

The Horse's Mouth (1958)

Foot and Mouth (1955)

Keep Your Mouth Shut (1944)

Mouth (performing artist: Merril Bainbridge)

I'll Open My Mouth To The Lord/ I'll Be Ready (performing artist: Sounds of Blackness)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Dry Mouth (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Mouthwashes, Mouth Fresheners, & Dental Rinses: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Mouthwashes, Mouth Fresheners, & Dental Rinses: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The World Market for Accordions, Mouth Organs, and Similar Instruments: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Mouthwashes, Mouth Fresheners, and Dental Rinses in Asia (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Mouthwashes, Mouth Fresheners and Dental Rinses [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Abracadabra (Open Mouth Poetry Series) (reference)

• The Secrets of Word-of-Mouth Marketing: How to Trigger Exponential Sales Through Runaway Word of Mouth (reference)

• Out of the Mouth of Babes: Extrasensory Perception in Children (reference)

• Hoof 'N Mouth Disease: Biblical Monologues and How to Do Them (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Mouth (reference)

• Word Of Mouth (reference)

• Word Of Mouth Newsletter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• In the Mouth of Madness (reference)

• Word of Mouth (reference)

• The Big Mouth (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Maestro of the Mouth Organ (reference)

• Smash Mouth (reference)

• Susan Marshall Is Honey Mouth (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• WWE Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth (reference)

• Windscreen Kit Supra Nc/polarisnoise Cancelling Mouth Piece (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Nissan 1.69-Quart Stainless Steel Insulated Wide Mouth Food Bottle (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is one white nude mouse. The mouse is showing the effects of some experimentation on his skin and around the mouth. He is seen here crawling around a lab table, which is covered in a white padding. Because of a genetic defect, nude mice have no thymus and cannot make certain cells essential for various immune responses. This characteristic makes them extremely helpful to scientists working in Immunology Research. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Kaposi's sarcoma in the mouth of an AIDS patient. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

HAV is usually spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth (even though it may look clean) that has been contaminated with the stool of a person with hepatitis A. Adults will have signs and symptoms more often than children. Credit: CDC.

The neutrophils are apparently phagocytizing bacteria. The paired N. gonorrhoeae diplococci is the etiologic pathogen, a bacterium that grows and multiplies quickly in moist, warm areas of the body like the cervix, urethra, mouth, or rectum. Credit: CDC.

Humpbacks feeding on krill. Straining water out of mouth before swallowing the catch. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

A Cow-nosed ray - Rhinoptera bonasus - near the surface, near the mouth of the Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Looking south toward mouth of Naknek River near village of Naknek. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The mouth of the Russian River north of San Francisco. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Photo # 2 - Streaming net during trawling operations. Yellow floats are pulled underwater but help keep the mouth of the net open while being towed. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Tuna ensnared near the mouth of the fish trap. Depth 25 meters. This tuna weighed 270 kilograms (approximately 600 pounds.). Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And to let us see, that even absolute power, where it is necessary, is not arbitrary by being absolute, but is still limited by that reason, and confined to those ends, which required it in some cases to be absolute, we need look no farther than the common practice of martial discipline: for the preservation of the army, and in it of the whole common-wealth, requires an absolute obedience to the command of every superior officer, and it is justly death to disobey or dispute the most dangerous or unreasonable of them; but yet we see, that neither the serjeant, that could command a soldier to march up to the mouth of a cannon, or stand in a breach, where he is almost sure to perish, can command that soldier to give him one penny of his money; nor the general, that can condemn him to death for deserting his post, or for not obeying the most desperate orders, can yet, with all his absolute power of life and death, dispose of one farthing of that soldier's estate, or seize one jot of his goods; whom yet he can command any thing, and hang for the least disobedience; because such a blind obedience is necessary to that end, for which the commander has his power, viz. (Second Treatise of Government)

No dues of any kind other than those provided for in the present Part shall be levied along the course or at the mouth of these rivers. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Now open your mouth and speak

Arthur had adopted his normal crisis role, which was to stand with his mouth hanging open and let it all wash over him.

There played around her mouth, and beamed out of her eyes, a radiant and tender smile, that seemed gushing from the very heart of womanhood

It was a sickening smile, for the corners of her mouth were stained with blood, and a dark cavity revealed itself there

He was glad for his mouth was hot and dry.

So now prosperity begins to mellow And drop into the rotten mouth of death

Winfield snorted and pinched his mouth tight

My wife ran out to embrace me, but I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could otherwise never be able to reach my mouth.

In proportion as the mouth of the cove was wider compared with its length, the water over the bar was deeper compared with that in the basin

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They dry out the mouth. (references)

Caffeine can dry out the mouth. (references)

Rinse your mouth after flossing. (references)

Business

Many new patients to JV hospitals and clinics are generated through word of mouth. (references)

However, the most successful method of marketing is word of mouth and a good reputation. (references)

However the most the most successful method of marketing is word of mouth and a good reputation. (references)

Civil Liberties

Argentina

In Santa Rosa, on February 17, four bullets were fired into the home of Edgardo Soto, who had been reporting on the foot and mouth disease outbreak and the debts of a local meat company. (references)

Economic History

Poland

BSE and foot and mouth concerns. (references)

Vietnam

Awareness of brands comes from word of mouth, promotions and advertising. (references)

Human Rights

Austria

In May 1999, an unsuccessful Nigerian asylum applicant died while being deported; his hands and feet were cuffed and his mouth was taped shut to control his violent behavior. (references)

Swaziland

Police sometimes beat criminal suspects and occasionally used the "tube" style of interrogation, in which police suffocate suspects through the use of a rubber tube around the face and mouth. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED KINGDOM

The indirect effects of the foot and mouth outbreak could prove more damaging in the tourism sector, which accounts for 4.0 percent of GDP. (references)

Trade

Syria

In response to recent foot and mouth disease epidemic, animal products may not be imported from or transit countries that have outbreaks of the disease. (references)

Travel

Turkey

Neither do the accepted practices of frequent soapy handwashing or covering of the mouth when coughing or sneezing and then washing hands. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Distillation from the mouth

Distillation from the mouth

A commandment of the mouth

Out of my mouth proceeds reproach

Out of the mouth

Mouth of God

The mouth of all

The mouth

Extension of the mouth

A dilatation of the mouth

Cutting of the mouth of warfare

Mouth

Ambush of the mouth

Distillation from the mouth

This mouth or mouthful

The Roe's mouth

The Roe's mouth

The Roe's mouth

The Roe's mouth

The Roe's mouth

The Roe's mouth

Expressions using "mouth": a closed mouth catches no flies ♦ back of the mouth ♦ be a big mouth ♦ be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ♦ be born with a silver spoon in the mouth ♦ be down in the mouth ♦ be in every mouth ♦ big mouth ♦ Bleeding of mouth and gums ♦ born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ♦ Burning Mouth Syndrome ♦ by mouth ♦ by word of mouth ♦ canker of the mouth ♦ condemned out of one's own mouth ♦ corner of smb.'s mouth ♦ don't look a gift horse in the mouth ♦ Down at the mouth ♦ Down in the mouth ♦ dragons mouth ♦ dragon's mouth ♦ dry mouth ♦ enter the mouth of a channel ♦ fall from the mouth ♦ foam at the mouth ♦ foaming at the mouth ♦ Foot and mouth disease ♦ from hand to mouth ♦ from mouth to mouth ♦ from the horse's mouth ♦ generous mouth ♦ give mouth ♦ green adder's mouth ♦ hand to mouth ♦ hand to mouth existence ♦ have a dry mouth ♦ have a foul mouth ♦ he lived from hand to mouth ♦ he's born with a silver spoon in his mouth ♦ hold one's mouth open ♦ i have a dry mouth ♦ in every one's mouth ♦ keep one's mouth shut ♦ keep smb.'s big mouth shut ♦ keep smb.'s mouth shut ♦ keep your mouth shut! ♦ laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth ♦ leave a bad taste in one's mouth ♦ lion's mouth ♦ live from hand to mouth ♦ look a gift horse in the mouth ♦ look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth ♦ make a wry mouth ♦ make a wry mouth at ♦ make ones mouth water ♦ make one's mouth water ♦ make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth ♦ march up to the cannon's mouth ♦ Mouth Abnormalities ♦ mouth blowpipe ♦ mouth bow ♦ Mouth Breathing ♦ mouth cavity ♦ mouth friend ♦ mouth glass ♦ mouth harp ♦ mouth hole ♦ mouth honor ♦ Mouth Neoplasms ♦ mouth of a mine ♦ mouth of a river ♦ mouth of river ♦ Mouth Of Wilson ♦ mouth off ♦ mouth organ ♦ mouth pipe ♦ Mouth Protectors ♦ mouth reference point ♦ Mouth sores ♦ mouth to mouth respiration ♦ mouth to mouth resuscitation ♦ Mouth Ulcer ♦ never look a gift horse in the mouth ♦ none of your mouth please! ♦ of the mouth ♦ open one's big mouth ♦ open one's mouth ♦ open smb.'s mouth too wide ♦ plaice mouth ♦ poor mouth ♦ pouch mouth ♦ prim up one's mouth ♦ purse one's mouth ♦ put one's head in to lion's mouth ♦ put to one's mouth ♦ put words into smb.'s mouth ♦ refuse to open one's mouth ♦ rinse one's mouth ♦ river mouth ♦ roof of the mouth ♦ run at the mouth. Additional references.

Beginning with "mouth": mouth-blown, mouth-breathing, mouth-bred, mouth-brooding, mouth-coating, mouth-corners, mouth-count, mouth-drying, mouth-fed, mouth-filling, mouth-flash, Mouth-footed, mouth-full-of-marbles, mouth-held, mouth-in, Mouth-made, mouth-melting, mouth-microphone, mouth-organ, mouth-organs, mouth-parts, mouth-piece, mouth-pieces, mouth-pulling, mouth-to-anus, mouth-to-caecum, mouth-to-genital, mouth-to-mouth, mouth-to-mouth method, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mouth-tusks, mouth-walk, mouth-wash, mouth-watering, mouth-wateringly, mouth-widening.

Ending with "mouth": burrow-mouth, melt-in-the-mouth, mouth-to-mouth, word-of-mouth.

Containing "mouth": foot-and-mouth disease, hoof-and-mouth disease, lead a hand-to-mouth existence, red-mouth grunt, word-of-mouth advertising.

Afrikaans

mond, bek (beak, bill). (various references)

Albanian

gojë (chamber, clam, kisser, mug, potato trap, potato-box, tongue). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فم الحيوان, ‏فم (maw, pecker), ‏فوهة (nozzle, orifice, spout), ‏فتحة الوعاء, ‏كشرة (grimace), ‏مصب (effluent, outlet), ‏ناطق بلسان (mouthpiece, speaker), ‏لحس (lick), ‏قلب شفتيه ازدراء ا, ‏تكلم (bleat, say, speak, spoke, tongue), ‏تكشيرة, ‏تناول طعاما (ingest), ‏تعبير (articulation, enunciation, expressing, expression, locution, look, manifestation, mien, phrase, statement, term, utterance, wording), ‏عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come, come across, conceive, couch, cross, emit, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, ventilate, voice), ‏شىء يشبه الفم. (various references)

Asturian

boca. (various references)

Aymara

laca. (various references)

Basque

aho (thread, wire). (various references)

Bemba

akanwa. (various references)

Blackfoot

maoó. (various references)

Bulgarian 

отвор (aperture, eye, hole, mesh, mortise, nose, opening, orifice, perforation, port, vent), докосвам с устни, дуло (chase, muzzle), дъвча (champ, chaw, chew, grind, masticate, munch), излаз (egress, issue), изход (conclusion, egress, event, exit, hole, issuance, issue, outcome, outflow, outlet, result, way out), привиквам кон към юзда, представител (agent, deputy, distributor, factor, prophet, rep, representation, representative, secondary, spokesman, vakeel), бъбривост (gab, garrulity, loquacity, volubility), делегат (delegate, secondary, spokesman), нахалство (arrogance, cheek, contumely, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, lip, neck, nerve, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), уста (kisser, mug, osculum, potato trap, potato-box, puss, rattletrap, rat-trap, throat, trap, yap), ораторствувам (hold forth, orate, perorate, speechify), вливам се (disembogue, empty, fall, flow, join, pour), говоря бомбастично с гримаси, гримаса (face, grimace, mop, mow, mug), гримаснича (grimace, mug), гърло (gorge, gullet, manhole, neck, pharynx, swallow, throat, weasand, whistle), ям (consume, discuss, eat, feed, have, partake, punish, take, taste, tuck away, victual), устие (debouchment, embouchure, entry, issue, orifice, outfall, outflow, throat), мънкам (ha, hum, mumble, mutter, say smth. under one's breath). (various references)

Cebuano

baba. (various references)

Chamorro

pachot. (various references)

Chinese 

嘴 . (various references)

Cornish

ganow. (various references)

Czech

pusa (kiss). (various references)

Danish

mund (bone, opening, os, osmium, stoma). (various references)

Dutch

bek (beak, bill, jaws, maw, muzzle), muil (jaws, maw, mule, muzzle), monding (muzzle, river mouth), mond (aperture, opening). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

shimi (language). (various references)

Esperanto

enfluejo, buŝo, buŝego (jaws, muzzle). (various references)

Faeroese

munnur. (various references)

Finnish

suu (aperture, entrance, lip, muzzle, opening, outlet). (various references)

French

embouchure (mouthpiece), bouche, ouverture, gueule, bec (mouthpiece). (various references)

Frisian

mûle. (various references)

German

Mündung (end, estuary, jaw, muzzle, orifice), Mund (tongue), Maul (gob, jaws, maw, muzzle, yap). (various references)

Greek 

στόμιο (mouthpiece, nozzle, orifice, outfall, plug, river mouth, spout), στόμα (maw, mouthpiece, mug, stoma). (various references)

Hawaiian

gojë. (various references)

Hebrew 

להביע במלים (phrase, verbalize), לבטא (enunciate, express, pronounce, speak, state, utter), פיפיה (amphistoma, sharp edge), פתח (aperture, door, doorway, entrance, entry, gateway, hatch, hole, intake, manhole, opening, portal, porthole, prise), פה (orifice), דובר (mouthpiece, speaker, spokesman). (various references)

Hungarian

száj (gullet, kisser, lip, lips, muss, muzzle, oral, orifice, potato trap, rattletrap), torkolat (chop, debouchment, embouchure, estuary, Firth, issue, jaw, jaws, Lough, outfall), nyílás (aperture, gap, hatch, hatchway, hiatus, lip, muzzle, opening, orifice, placket, placket-hole, port, recess, slit, sluice outlet, spread, vent), luk, bejárat (door, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, gate, gateway, hallway, inlet, port, portal). (various references)

Icelandic

munnur. (various references)

Indonesian

mulut, bacot (snout). (various references)

Inuktitut

qaniq. (various references)

Irish

béal (lip). (various references)

Italian

bocca (muzzle), imboccatura (entrance, mouthpiece), sbocco (dead end, end, issue, market, outlet, sales, sales activity), foce (outfall, outlet), apertura (aperture, gap, gape, hole, inlet, leak, opening, openness, orifice, slot, span, spread, vent). (various references)