mouth

1. (verb) articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word"
Related Words: affect, dissemble, feign, lip-sync, lip-synch, pretend, sham

2. (verb) touch with the mouth
Related Words: touch

3. (noun) the opening of a jar or bottle; "the jar had a wide mouth"
Related Words: opening

4. (noun) the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face; "she wiped lipstick from her mouth"
Related Words: beak, cytostome, opening, orifice

5. (noun) the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy"
Synonyms: oral cavity
Related Words: bodily cavity, cavity, cavum, hole, maw, trap, yap

6. (noun) 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"
Related Words: gap, opening

7. (noun) the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water; "New York is at the mouth of the Hudson"
Related Words: formation, geological formation, geology

8. (noun) a person conceived as a consumer of food; "he has four mouths to feed"
Related Words: devourer, eater, feeder

9. (noun) (informal) a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
Synonyms: mouthpiece
Related Words: interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice

10. (verb) express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"
Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalize
Related Words: babble, bark, bay, begin, blabber, blubber, blubber out, blunder out, blurt, blurt out, cackle, chant, chatter, clack, communicate, deliver, drone, drone on, ejaculate, enthuse, falter, gabble, generalise, generalize, gibber, gulp, hiss, inflect, intercommunicate, intone, jabber, jaw, lip off, maffle, maunder, modulate, mouth off, mumble, murmur, mussitate, mutter, open up, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, present, rabbit on, rant, rasp, rattle on, rave, read, shoot one's mouth off, shout, sibilate, sing, siss, sizz, slur, snap, snarl, snivel, speak in tongues, speak of, speak up, spout, stammer, stutter, swallow, talk about, talk of, tattle, tittle-tattle, troll, twaddle, whine, whisper, yack, yack away, yap away

11. (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass"
Synonyms: backtalk, lip, sass, sassing
Related Words: cheek, comeback, impertinence, impudence, rejoinder, retort, return, riposte



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