† mouth-grenadon.
figurative. Obsolete.
A violent or inflammatory speech; = mouth-grenade n.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > impassioned
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1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 36 Yet to expresse a Scot, to play that prize, Not all those mouth-Granadoes can suffice.
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 27 The roaring Mouth-Granado's of Oaths.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1647- be a box of fluffy to be a box of fluffies
- be a bundle of nerves
- back slang
- back slum
- back slums
- back smoke
- back story
- back street
- back stretch
- back the field
- back the find
- back the oars
- back the squares
- back time
- back to basics
- back to front
- back to reality
- back to square one
- back to the basics
- back to the drawing board
- back to the drawing table
- back to the land
- back to the world
- back track
- back trail