bemouth
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[edit]bemouth (third-person singular simple present bemouths, present participle bemouthing, simple past and past participle bemouthed)
- (transitive) To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.
- (transitive) To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat.
- 1841, Miss M. Corbett, The New Happy Week, page 161:
- 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.
- 1879, Theodore Tilton, The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume:
- All made of Flanders cloth,
And now bemouthed of many a moth […]