mouth

Meaning

1. The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
2. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
3. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
4. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
5. (slang) A gossip.
6. The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
7. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
8. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
9. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

opening

face

river mouth

rima oris

oral fissure

outfall

smack one’s lips

back talk

mouth to feed

speak without thinking

potato-box

interstice

issue

jaw

shoot off one’s mouth

bell mouth

mouth opening

river outlet

make / pull faces

horn mouth

business agent

negative delta

bellmouthed opening

mouth hole

stream outlet

rima

arm

ferme

snarl at

wry face

spokesman of chief

shape of the mouth

near an entrance

space character

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maʊθ/

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 müd, müth, müss (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian munn (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“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 [script needed] (mēni, “chin”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.