mouth

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

1. To speak; to utter.
2. To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but without producing sound.
3. To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
4. To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
5. To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
6. To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
7. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
8. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
9. To carry in the mouth.
10. (obsolete) To make mouths at
11. To form a mouth or opening in.
12. To examine the teeth of.

Concepts

mouth

opening

face

orifice

beak

lip

estuary

lips

hole

mouthpiece

speak

maw

utter

muzzle

tunnel

head

nozzle

spout

snout

entrance

gate

backtalk

sass

talk

verbalize

outfall

oral cavity

oral fissure

rima oris

gob

river mouth

gap

door

abyss

jaws

eater

mouth to feed

pharynx

brim

point

inlet

intake

aperture

verbalise

back talk

sassing

kisser

smack one’s lips

grimace

os

edge

lacuna

slot

bill

chasm

divide

gulf

ravine

shoot off one’s mouth

speak without thinking

make faces

scold

snarl at

spokesman of chief

tip

near an entrance

shape of the mouth

proboscis

approach

entry

delta

fan

passage

valve

vocalize

moue

pout

wry face

gingiva

jaw

chaw

manhole

dupe

pronounce

champ

make / pull faces

disembogue

potato-box

trap

tongue

canal

mug

stoma

plug

ostium

bell mouth

bellmouth

bellmouthed opening

flared

horn mouth

negative delta

escapement

spur

debouchment

river outlet

stream outlet

source

feed

food

root

wood

upper lip

dissolve

melt

breach

clear

fault

fenestra

foramen

outlet

rima

split

vent

way out

agent

business agent

delegate

deputy

exponent

lieutenant

procurator

representative

spokesman

spokeswoman

voice

call

go

posit

put

put forward

say

state

submit

mouth hole

kiss

osculate

smooch

chap

rim

vocal

neck

express

mouth opening

gab

nose

arm

issue

seam

bottle

mouthes

mouths

cavity

ferme

blank

chink

cranny

crevice

interstice

lacunae

loophole

rent

space

space character

vista

moon

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maʊθ/

Etymology

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.