mouth

The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

"Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.

I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.

The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.

The Yalu is mainly useful in floating down immense rafts of wood, which find their way from the town of Antung, at the mouth of the river, to the port of Newchwang, and to Chefoo and Tientsin for the provinces of Shantung and Chihli.

An outlet, aperture or orifice.

But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses.

‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’

A loud or overly talkative person.

My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.

A gossip.

Siobhán, you know Donna's a mouth.

To speak; to utter.

He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.

mouthing big phrases

To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.

The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.

One was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound eee, the other was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound ahhh.

To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.

But words are nothing to the misbelieving -- mere air mouthed into a sound.

There was also a close temporal contiguity between "smiling" or other "emotional" grimaces and mouthing and tonguing movements, so that it was often difficult to distinguish between mouthing and smiling.

Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely.

She [Marjorie Taylor Greene] seems to have sincerely believed the lies that shrewder players merely mouthed.

To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.

Those who endeavor to become eloquent by mere imitation of some celebrated model—an actor for instance—often attempt to gain this quality by altering their voice in an unnatural manner. Such a process never produces any thing but mouthing.

This view of voice cultivation excludes all mouthing and ranting which have been thought to be necessary incidents of voice culture.