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单词 mim-mouthed
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mim-mouthed
mim-mouthed adj. silent, reserved, reticent, esp. affectedly so; prim, meek, or effete in speech or (in extended use) behaviour.
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1721 A. Ramsay Lucky Spence iii O Black-ey'd Bess, and mim mou'd Meg, O'er good to work or yet to beg.
1820 Smugglers I. xiii. 164 I'm no for being mim mou'd when there's no reason; but a man had as gude, whiles, cast a knot on his tongue.
1914 County Folk-lore VII. 391 Mim-mou'ed maidens never get a man; muckle-mou'ed maids get twa.
1997 Scotl. on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 20 Apr. His work with Aberdeen was even more astonishing. He took a mim-mouthed club, and made them predators feared throughout Europe.
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