MOUTH

I. noun (plural ~s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English mūth; akin to Old High German mund ~ and perhaps to Latin mentum chin Date: before 12th century 1. the natural opening through which food passes into the body of an animal and which in vertebrates is typically bounded externally by the lips and internally by the pharynx and encloses the tongue, gums, and teeth, grimace , an individual requiring food , 2. voice , speech , ~piece 3a, c. a tendency to excessive talk, saucy or disrespectful language ; impudence , something that resembles a ~ especially in affording entrance or exit: as, the place where a stream enters a larger body of water, the surface opening of an underground cavity, the opening of a container, an opening in the side of an organ flue pipe, ~like adjective II. Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. speak , pronounce , to utter bombastically ; declaim , to repeat without comprehension or sincerity , to form soundlessly with the lips , to utter indistinctly ; mumble , to take into the ~, intransitive verb 1. to talk pompously ; rant , to talk insolently or impudently, to move the ~ especially so as to make faces, ~er noun