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bemouth en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + mouth.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.
2. (transitive) To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat.
   • Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power. 1841, Miss M. Corbett, The New Happy Week, page 161:
   • All made of Flanders cloth, And now bemouthed of many a moth […] 1879, Theodore Tilton, The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume:

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