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† ˈpouch-mouth, a. and n. Obs.
[f. pouch n. + mouth n.; cf. pouch v. 3.]
a. adj. Having a mouth like a pouch, i.e. with thick or protruding lips; in quot. 1575 said of a word (cf. jaw-breaking).
b. n. A person, or a mouth, with protruding lips. So ˈpouch-mouthed a. = a.
1565Darius (1860) 37 Thou pouchmouth knaue! Thou shalt strypes haue. c1570Preston Cambyses in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 179 Now, goodman pouchmouth, I am a slave with you! c1570in Nichols Topographer II. 400 A statue of a pouchemouthed squier. 1575G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 93 When I first heard that same terrible powche⁓mouthe and..owtelandish worde. 1611Cotgr., Morre, a powch-mouth; a mouth garded with great, out-standing, or slowching lips. 1863Kirk Chas. Bold II. 192 From his Polish mother, Cimburga the ‘pouch-mouthed’, he had inherited the large protruding under-jaw which, transmitted to his descendants, is still designated as ‘the Austrian lip’. |