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Webster 1828 Edition


Mouthing

MOUTH'ING

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ppr.
Uttering with an affected swelling voice.

Definition 2024


mouthing

mouthing

English

Verb

mouthing

  1. present participle of mouth

Noun

mouthing (plural mouthings)

  1. The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.
    • 2013, Robert Bayley, ‎Richard Cameron, ‎Ceil Lucas, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (page 382)
      Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).