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tut-mouthed, a. rare. Now Sc. dial.
Also 6 Sc. tute-mowitt, 9 tuit-moot.
[f. tute, toot v.1 to protrude, stick out + mouth n. + -ed2. Cf. older Flem. tuyt-muyl ‘broncus, brochus’ (Kilian).]
Having protruding lips; also, having a projecting under jaw. So tut-mouth (Sc. tuit mow).
α1500–20Dunbar Poems liv. 6 Quhou fain wald I descrywe perfytt, My ladye with the mekle lippis. Quhou scho is tute mowitt lyk an aip. a1585Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 755 (Harl. MS.) Tout mowe [v.rr. tait, tuit mow, cruik mow] woodie sow, sone bowe, or I wand thee. 1893W. Gregor in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) III. 286 Tute mowitt..still in use in parts of the North as a word of contempt, as, ‘He's a tuit-moot smatchit’.
β1538Elyot, Bronchi, they whyche haue their mouthe and tethe standyng farre out, tut mouthed. 1601Holland Pliny xi. xxxvii. I. 336 The Lips: some men there be that put them far out, by reason that they are gag-toothed or tut-mouthed. 1616Bullokar Eng. Exp., Tutmouthed, he that hath the chin and nether iaw sticking out farther than the vpper. |