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noun

ˈmau̇th How to pronounce mouth (audio)
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as in jaws
the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal the baby chicks opened their mouths very wide and chirped piteously when their mother came back with worms

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as in grimace
a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval the boy usually makes a mouth when he gets an injection

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as in cheek
disrespectful or argumentative talk given in response to a command or request I won't tolerate you giving your mother mouth about everything

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as in spokesperson
a person who speaks for another or for a group the press secretary is the official mouth of the administration

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verb

ˈmau̇t͟h How to pronounce mouth (audio)
1
as in to grimace
to distort one's face when her mother told her to mind, the little girl mouthed insolently and rolled her eyes

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as in to mutter
to speak softly and unclearly the prompter mouthed the forgotten words under his breath

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Recent Examples of mouth
Noun
Jarrett and his coworkers later calculated that, at the flood’s peak, the Big Thompson River at the canyon mouth charged down at 31,200 cubic feet per second — nearly four times the previous maximum flow recorded. — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 27 July 2026 Those final seasons also had their highest ratings because audiences caught up on the series through the word of mouth those Emmy wins helped provide. — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 27 July 2026
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True and Dream then appeared in the same way, with True expertly flipping her sunglasses onto her face in time to the music, before the trio joined Kardashian to mouth the lyrics. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025 As in the never-ending parade of ostensibly Christian exorcism movies, religious belief here seems like a superficial excuse for a stock array of supernatural hoodoo — no matter how many times Chalik’s Abuyya pauses the action to mouth some healing doctrine. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mouth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouth
  1. jaws
  2. grimace
  3. cheek
  4. spokesperson
  5. mutter
  6. face
  7. frown
  8. disrespect
Noun
  • The first story was set in the 1980s while the second volume, recently wrapped, was set in the 1990s, at the dawn of the Internet age and culminated with a shocking finale that left readers’ jaws on the forest floor.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2026
  • This cinches everything into place, while also tightening down the jaws of the hasps so they can't be opened until the Cordalock is unlocked.
    — Ben Coxworth July 18, New Atlas, 18 July 2026
Definition of jaws
Noun
  • Back at the team bus, the high fives and handshakes wore grimaces.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • He was knocked down by center Brayden Schenn on the final faceoff, then skated off the ice with a grimace.
    — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026
Definition of grimace
Noun
  • The babies looked so similar that one of the fathers in the group, who happened to be a microbiology professor, offered to swab their cheeks, take a sample and run a DNA test.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026
  • His feeding tube and oxygen cannula rested against his cheek.
    — Danielle Stephens, USA Today, 26 July 2026
Definition of cheek
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  • The Boise Airport does not receive local property tax money or general fund dollars for day-to-day operations, Kronberg, the airport spokesperson, said in an email.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 26 July 2026
  • The deputy foreign ministers of Iran and Oman held talks in Tehran about the Strait of Hormuz over the past two days, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a Telegram post Sunday.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 26 July 2026
Definition of spokesperson
Verb
  • This was 1872, and the pious (and patronizing) commentators of the time muttered that Damien’s unvarnished personality was due to his simple farm upbringing in rural Belgium.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
  • Wilde read on social media that the tune actually inspired a movie theater meet-cute, as Nash mutters profanity mid-song.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Definition of mutter
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  • The competition series featured masters of shamanism, tarot, face and foot reading, saju and other divination disciplines competing in challenges that tested their abilities, using tools including fans, bells, dowsing rods and modern-day laptops.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 July 2026
  • Dua Lipa sued Samsung for $15 million for including her easily recognizable face on packaging for TV screens without her permission.
    — Schuyler Moore, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of face
Noun
  • Lee indulges that emotional ambiguity, the way the pedal steel can blur the distinction between a frown and a smile.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
  • Numbers might be up, but frowns are also up.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
Definition of frown
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  • And with no disrespect to the Signature motorhome and its 2-in-1 hybrid bathroom and swiveling front lounge, the sliding bathroom of the Habiton camper van was arguably the pièce de résistance of that multi-vehicle effort.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 July 2026
  • Their shunning of the Spanish coronation, however, felt uniquely unappealing, a show of disrespect to the winners of the most high-profile sporting event in the world.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
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“Mouth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouth. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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