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wide-mouthed, a.|ˈwaɪdmaʊðd, -maʊθt|
1. a. Of a person or animal: Having a wide mouth.
1611Cotgr., Diable de mer,..the ouglie wide-mouthed fish, called, the sea Frog. Ibid., s.v. Fendu, Bien fendu de gueule, wide-mouthed, sparrow-mouthed. 1843Tennyson Godiva 56 The little wide-mouth'd heads upon the spout. 1854A. Adams etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 86 Wide-mouthed Fishes (Plagiostomi).
b. Of a vessel or receptacle: Having a wide mouth or opening.
1611Cotgr., Mortier, the short, and wide-mouthed peece of Ordnance called a Morter. a1711Ken Preparatives Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 92 Two wide-mouth'd Quivers fill'd with Store, Of deadly Darts. 1769Mrs. Raffald Engl. Housekpr. (1778) 363 Put your gooseberries into wide-mouthed bottles. 1847Longfellow Ev. i. ii. 52 The wide-mouthed fireplace. 1886Winchell Geol. Talks 61 Another of these sea-bottom fishes hangs like an open wide-mouthed meal-bag.
2. Having the mouth wide open, or opening the mouth wide:
a. for utterance, etc.; also transf. of the utterance; also fig. speaking, or spoken, loudly or without restraint.
1593Chute in G. Harvey's Pierces Super. Gg 2 b, Thy wydemouth'd..phrase..Aptly hath knowne thine Armory to blase In termes peculiar vnto none but thee. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. L 4 b, Murder is wide-mouthd, and will not let God rest till he grant reuenge. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xiii. xcv, His wide-mouth'd Blasphemies. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 384 His Sonnets charm'd th' attentive Crowd, By wide-mouth'd Mortal troul'd aloud. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 603 Those wide-mouthed Languages, which do remarkably expose to the Eye the Motions of the Tongue, Lips, Throat, &c. 1745Cibber in Ayre Mem. Pope II. 85 This..is a Scent, that those wide-mouth'd Hounds the Daily-Paper Criticks could never hit off! 1903M.A.P. XI. 137/1 His face wide-eyed and wide-mouthed in a voiceless panic.
b. for swallowing: Voracious, devouring, destructive.
1596R. L[inche] Diella etc. F 1 b, That wide-mouth'd time..shall shut his iawes, & ne're deuoure thy name. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche iv. lv, Here wide-mouth'd Luxury Might gormandize her fill. 1887Meredith Phaethon in Ballads & P. 156 The rage of the havoc wide-mouthed. |