mouthnoun/maʊθ/

• 1

  anatomymedicinesciencesThe front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

  • "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
  • She kissed him on the mouth.
• 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.
  • The Yalu is mainly useful in floating down immense rafts of wood, which find their way from the town of Antung, at the mouth of the river, to the port of Newchwang, and to Chefoo and Tientsin for the provinces of Shantung and Chihli.
• 3

  An outlet, aperture or orifice.

  • But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses.
  • ‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’
• 4

  slangA loud or overly talkative person.

  • My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.
• 5

  slangA gossip.

  • Siobhán, you know Donna's a mouth.
• 6

  The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

• 7

  obsoleteA principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

  • Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
• 8

  obsoleteSpeech; language; testimony.

  • that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established

mouthverb/maʊð/

• 1

  To speak; to utter.

  • He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
  • How can you get up there and mouth such clichés?
• 2

  To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.

  • The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
  • She mouthed a warning to me as the teacher entered the room.
• 3

  To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.

  • But words are nothing to the misbelieving -- mere air mouthed into a sound.
  • There was also a close temporal contiguity between "smiling" or other "emotional" grimaces and mouthing and tonguing movements, so that it was often difficult to distinguish between mouthing and smiling.
• 4

  To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.

  • 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.
  • This view of voice cultivation excludes all mouthing and ranting which have been thought to be necessary incidents of voice culture.
• 5

  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.
  • Suddenly an avalanche of stones turned loose right down a ravine and mouthed out on the road, stones large enough to knock a horse down, or larger, and a plenty of them to do a fair job on a large group.
• 6

  To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.

  • The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
  • She alighted and mouthed over several within a small space and a short time; and these buds were not at the bottom of the hedge; nor was she searching for a nest-site.
• 7

  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.
  • Each contained a long, wide, solid oak table around which all who could find a space the width of his body would mouth his brown-bag grub from home.
• 8

  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.
  • Meanwhile she, and the male, mouthed over the inner surface of pot until it was as clean as could be.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• mouth the words