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mouthie en · NOUN

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Etymology

From mouth + -ie.

Meanings

1. (childish) The mouth.
   • Open wide the little mouthie, / Pop one finger in! 1900 March, “Fingerings”, in The Educational Review, St. John, N.B., page 233, column 1:
   • “[…] what on earth is the matter that your little mouthie is bleeding that way like a sheep?” 1865, [Susan Stirling], “At the Ramsays on a Party Day”, in Sedgely Court: A Tale, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 78:
   • Closed thine eyes and little mouthie; […] [between 1870 and 1892?], John Blair, “Foreign Poets”, in Collection of Rhymes, &c., Parkhill, Ont.: […] the Gazette Printing House, part II, page 11:
   • Putting the lobster in your little mouthie. 1989, Daniel Pinkwater, “Psychopathia Snacksualis”, in Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommontaries and Vulgar Excesses, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, part one (Crack the Whip and Pass the Chips), page 19:
   • After cleaning myself up and wiping her cute little mouthie, she was at it again. 1948 December, Cynthia Medley, “Letter To A Friend”, in The Epaulet, volume IX, number 1, the Students of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, page 9, column 1:
   • You throw ’em and the dogs go and pick ’em up with their mouthies. 1909, Alexander F., Isabel C. Chamberlain, “Studies of a Child. IV. “Meanings” and “Definitions” in the Forty-Seventh and Forty-Eighth Months”, in G[ranville] Stanley Hall, editor, The Pedagogical Seminary: A Quarterly; International Record of Educational Literature, Institutions and Progress, volume XVI, Worcester, Mass.: Florence Chandler, […], page 77:

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