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单词 mickle-mouthed
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mickle-mouthedadj.

Brit. /ˈmɪkəlmaʊðd/, U.S. /ˈmɪkəlˌmaʊðd/, /ˈmɪkəlˌmaʊθt/, Scottish English /ˈmɪkəlmʌʊθt/
Forms: see mickle adj. and mouthed adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mickle adj., mouthed adj.
Etymology: < mickle adj. + mouthed adj.
Chiefly Scottish.
Having a large mouth.In quot. 1720: (of a spoon) having a large bowl; cf. mouth n. 17.
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round-mouthed?1473
shevel?1507
tut-mouthed?a1513
wry-mouthed1552
pouch-mouth1565
plaice-moutha1569
out-lipped1570
pouch-mouthed?a1592
flap-mouthed1594
wide-mouthed1594
plaice-mouthed1595
big-mouthed1602
sparrow-mouthed1611
stretch-moutheda1616
splay-mouthed1647
wry-mouth1652
whale-mouthed1656
out-mouthed1698
spout-mouthed?1711
mickle-mouthed1720
sheveling-gabbit1725
mickle-mouth1863
tenible1871
primped1935
1720 A. Ramsay Christ's Kirk on Green iii, in Poems 112 Twall Toop Horn-spoons down Maggy lays, Baith muckle-mow'd and lang.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 253 Mickle mouth'd Folk are happy to their Meat.
1802 in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott xi Meg Murray was the ugliest woman in the four counties, and..was called..meikle-mouthed Meg.
1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet vii. 63 There was no ane o' them weel-faured——Muckle-moo'd Gilchrists they ca'ed them.
1914 County Folk-lore VII. 391 Mim-mou'ed maidens never get a man; muckle-mou'ed maids get twa.
1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xi. 93 She was sort of muckle-mouthed... When she was talking and got excited,..her mouth sort of went in about fifty directions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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