mouthable en · ADJ
Etymology
From mouth + -able.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) That may be taken into the mouth, especially in terms of objects in a house that an infant may suck on and which must therefore be free from toxic substances such as lead.
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(informal, not-comparable) Fine-sounding, of spoken words.
[…] probably the most mouthable of the self-mocking wisecracks […]
1975, The Listener, volume 94, page 281:[…] while our poetry rollicked in mouthable lines that, like the face of Helen 'launched a thousand ships […]
1950, Richard Church, Poems for speaking: an anthology with an essay on reading aloud: