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cottonmouthed en · ADJ

Etymology

From cottonmouth + -ed.

Meanings

1. Suffering from cottonmouth; characterized by cottonmouth.
   • He was doing a lot of coke and getting cottonmouthed and very slobby. 1989, Victor Bockris, quoting Daniela Morera, Warhol, Penguin Books, published 1990, →ISBN, page 519:
   • It was Billy Mitchell whose deep, wildly slurring cottonmouthed voice brought off the song, cut in April 1954, that stands as the Clovers’ masterpiece, “Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ but Trash,” written by the great Jesse Stone (doing business as Charles Calhoun). 1984, Nick Tosches, Unsung Heroes of Rock ’n’ Roll, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 98:
   • It was the telephone jerking him out of it in a cold dry trembling cottonmouthed panic, gray light just beginning to show in the window across the hall outside his bedroom as he reached the instrument from its hook and put it against his ear as much to shut off the terrible head-cracking sound as to perform the proper reflex and say thickly, “Yes?” 1968, Richard Stiller, The Felix Factor, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →LCCN, page 234:

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