open-mouthedadj.

Brit.

/ˌəʊp(ə)nˈmaʊðd/, U.S.

/ˈoʊp(ə)nˈmaʊðd/

Forms: see open adj. and mouthed adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: open adj., mouthed adj.

Etymology: < open adj. + mouthed adj.

†1. Having the mouth open to speak; speaking freely, clamorous, vociferous. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective]

wordyeOE

talewisec1200

i-worded?c1225

babblinga1250

cacklinga1250

chatteringa1250

speakfula1250

word-wooda1250

of many wordsc1350

janglingc1374

tatteringc1380

tongueya1382

ganglinga1398

readya1400

jargaunt1412

talkative1432

open-moutheda1470

clattering1477

trattling?a1513

windy1513

popping1528

smatteringa1529

rattle?1529

communicablea1533

blab1552

gaggling1553

long-tongued?1553

prittle-prattle1556

pattering1558

talking1560

bobling1566

gabbling1566

verbal1572

piet1573

twattling1573

flibber gibber1575

babblative1576

tickle-tongued1577

tattling1581

buzzing1587

long-winded1589

multiloquous1591

discoursive1599

rattling1600

glib1602

flippant1605

talkful1605

nimble-tongued1608

tongue-ripe1610

fliperous1611

garrulous?1611

futile1612

overspeaking1612

feather-tongueda1618

tongue-free1617

long-breatheda1628

well-breathed1635

multiloquious1640

untongue-tied1640

unretentive1650

communicative1651

linguacious1651

glibbed1654

largiloquent1656

multiloquent1656

parlagea1657

loose-clacked1661

nimble-chop1662

twit-twat1665

over-talkativea1667

loquacious1667

loudmouth1668

conversable1673

gash1681

narrative1681

chappy1693

apposite1701

conversative1703

gabbit1710

lubricous1715

gabby?1719

ventose1721

taleful1726

chatty?1741

blethering1759

renable1781

fetch-fire1784

conversational1799

conversant1803

gashing1808

long-lunged1815

talky1815

multi-loquacious1819

prolegomenous1822

talky-talky1831

nimble-mouthed1836

slipper1842

speechful1842

gassy1843

in great force1849

yattering1859

babbly1860

irreticent1864

chattable1867

lubrical1867

chattery1869

loose-mouthed1872

chinny1883

tongue-wagging1885

yappy1909

big-mouthed1914

loose-lipped1919

ear-bashing1945

ear-bending1946

yackety-yacking1953

nattering1959

yacking1959

woofy1960

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1045 Many in the courte spake of hit, and in especiall Sir Aggravayne, sir Gawaynes brothir, for he was ever opynne-mowthed.

?1553 Respublica (1952) iv. iv. 36 The fowlest open mowthed whretch that eare ye harde.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 162 Some open-mouthed Libertines..had as deeply learned that cunning lesson.

a1602 W. Perkins Whole Treat. Cases of Conscience (1619) 367 What is that makes men to be open mouthed in declaring and censuring our faults?

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 64 Justice indeed Should ever be close ear'd, and open mouthd.

1793 T. Jefferson Let. 24 Mar. in Papers (1992) XXV. 443 The ladies of this city, of the first circle are all open-mouthed against the murderers of a sovereign, and they generally speak those sentiments which the more cautious husband smothers.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 367 Zulestein..found all the people whom he met open-mouthed about the infamous fraud just committed by the Jesuits.

1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xvi. 121 George intended to tell her of the will, but was not disposed to do so without some preparation. It was a thing not to be spoken of open-mouthed, as a piece of ordinary news.

1889 R. Dunlop Life of Henry Grattan iv. 368 They sought him in order to obtain intelligence, as he was an open-mouthed person.

a. Having the mouth open; that is in full cry, rapacious.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > loud or resonant

loud971

highlyOE

stithc1000

strongOE

steepc1275

stiff1377

strengthfula1382

gross1398

stentorious15..

open-mouthed?1533

wildc1550

preclare?1553

strainable1569

trolling1581

main1582

wide-mouthed1589

full-mouthed1594

wide-mouth?c1599

stentorian1606

trump-like1609

stentorophonic1678

strenuous1680

open-mouth1702

stentorial1754

stentoronic1762

full-throated1820

trumpety1822

Stentor1837

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > open-mouthed

yawningc890

galpingc1386

open-mouthed?1533

gaping1594

wide-mouth?c1599

mouthed1609

slack-jawed1642

slack-mouthed1642

open-mouth1702

wide-mouthed1776

gapish1850

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Bi Ye shal pronounce your a, as wyde open mouthed as ye can.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 62. ⁋2 A fine open-mouthed Dog.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 336 I was attack'd by two Wenches that came open Mouth'd at me just as I was going out at the Door.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc x. 508 [He] then beholds the inevitable shark Close on him open-mouthed.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. iv. 182 Hounds running at them open-mouthed.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxv. 626 Lowering thy keel among ravening sharks, and followed by them, open-mouthed to the chase.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/3 An open-mouthed army, like an open-mouthed individual, does not strike one as particularly intelligent.

1991 Music & Lett. 72 63 A group of four—two young men and two girls—are engaged in a carole en ronde, the open-mouthed young man at right being the leader.

b. figurative. Having an aperture which is open or may be likened to an open mouth.

ΚΠ

a1632 J. Webster & W. Rowley Cure for Cuckold (1661) iv. i. sig. F^v My purse shall run open mouth'd at thee.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 65 Her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greasy landskip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth'd gap, overshaded with a grizzly bush.

1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby viii. 78 While we are gazing at it with all its branches extended, and all its open-mouthed bells expanded, the passing of a vagrant animalcule..causes the whole array to contract.

1874 Nature 3 Sept. 370/1 The change from the slender, tubular, open-mouthed to the inflated closed-mouthed pitchers [of Darlingtonia] is..sudden.

1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate (1967) vii. 284 The Tomb of Lazarus stood open-mouthed by the roadside.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Mar. 9/1 Florets—the mountain laurel—float open mouthed, devout, set swaying by the wake of the flatboat.

c. Of a vessel or container: having a wide mouth.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [adjective] > having specific type of mouth

wide-mouthed1542

narrow-mouthed1563

narrow-necked1605

open-mouthed1660

wide-mouth1822

hole-mouth1909

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxii. 177 The open-mouth'd Glass was by this means almost replenished.

1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Cyder The apples are then ground, and the pummice is received in a large open-mouthed vessel.

1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 186 Each molecule of the organs is in a manner placed between two open-mouthed vessels.

1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses xix. 308 In Mr. Cuming's collection is an open-mouthed glass tumbler, a family relic.

1939 J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete iv. 244 The open-mouthed crater has come into fashion.

1989 Jrnl. Middle Atlantic Archaeol. 5 69 Chicha is a maize beer, brewed by boiling maize flour and water..and then placing it into tinajones, larger open-mouthed jars, to cool.

3. Gaping, as with astonishment, anticipation, surprise, or incomprehension.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adjective] > open-mouthed

with open mouth1548

open-mouthed?1606

slack-jawed1642

slack-mouthed1642

?1606 M. Drayton Eglog v, in Poemes sig. E4 This fond gentility, Whereon the foole world open mouthed gazes.

1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto i Some of the vulgar spectators had run to the great church which stood near the castle and came back open-mouthed.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 158 The poor peasants..remained open-mouthed with surprize.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xiii. 160 Mr. Swiveller looked, as he was, all open-mouthed astonishment.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 56 Yet did the shipmen stay their speech And open-mouthed upon her stare.

1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 195 Whole rows of ladies, with the slightly open-mouthed, adenoidal expression of vicarious romance, sat forward in their chairs.

1988 Times 14 Oct. 27/6 Old hands in the takeover game have watched open mouthed at the antics of consolidated Gold Fields to sink the bid from Minorco.

Derivatives

ˌopen-ˈmouthedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun]

overspeecheOE

tongue-itch1540

multiloquy1542

long tongue1557

garrulity1581

slipperiness1589

polylogy1602

volubility1602

loquacity1603

lubricity1603

tonguiness1607

overspeakinga1610

talkativeness1609

philology1623

tongue-vice1628

glibness1633

futility1640

linguacity1656

garrulousness1727

linguosity1727

loquaciousness1727

multiloquiousness1727

jaw1748

multiloquence1760

flippancy1789

verbal diarrhoea1808

magpiety1832

big mouth1834

pleniloquence1838

chattiness1876

open-mouthedness1883

gabbiness1887

garrulance1890

irreticence1919

talkiness1934

ear-bashing1945

mee-mawing1974

1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 973/1 He confessed, with his usual incurable open-mouthedness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	open-mouthed
释义	open-mouthedadj. Brit. /ˌəʊp(ə)nˈmaʊðd/, U.S. /ˈoʊp(ə)nˈmaʊðd/ Forms: see open adj. and mouthed adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: open adj., mouthed adj. Etymology: < open adj. + mouthed adj. †1. Having the mouth open to speak; speaking freely, clamorous, vociferous. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1045 Many in the courte spake of hit, and in especiall Sir Aggravayne, sir Gawaynes brothir, for he was ever opynne-mowthed. ?1553 Respublica (1952) iv. iv. 36 The fowlest open mowthed whretch that eare ye harde. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 162 Some open-mouthed Libertines..had as deeply learned that cunning lesson. a1602 W. Perkins Whole Treat. Cases of Conscience (1619) 367 What is that makes men to be open mouthed in declaring and censuring our faults? a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 64 Justice indeed Should ever be close ear'd, and open mouthd. 1793 T. Jefferson Let. 24 Mar. in Papers (1992) XXV. 443 The ladies of this city, of the first circle are all open-mouthed against the murderers of a sovereign, and they generally speak those sentiments which the more cautious husband smothers. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 367 Zulestein..found all the people whom he met open-mouthed about the infamous fraud just committed by the Jesuits. 1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. xvi. 121 George intended to tell her of the will, but was not disposed to do so without some preparation. It was a thing not to be spoken of open-mouthed, as a piece of ordinary news. 1889 R. Dunlop Life of Henry Grattan iv. 368 They sought him in order to obtain intelligence, as he was an open-mouthed person. 2. a. Having the mouth open; that is in full cry, rapacious. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > loud or resonant loud971 highlyOE stithc1000 strongOE steepc1275 stiff1377 strengthfula1382 gross1398 stentorious15.. open-mouthed?1533 wildc1550 preclare?1553 strainable1569 trolling1581 main1582 wide-mouthed1589 full-mouthed1594 wide-mouth?c1599 stentorian1606 trump-like1609 stentorophonic1678 strenuous1680 open-mouth1702 stentorial1754 stentoronic1762 full-throated1820 trumpety1822 Stentor1837 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > open-mouthed yawningc890 galpingc1386 open-mouthed?1533 gaping1594 wide-mouth?c1599 mouthed1609 slack-jawed1642 slack-mouthed1642 open-mouth1702 wide-mouthed1776 gapish1850 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Bi Ye shal pronounce your a, as wyde open mouthed as ye can. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 62. ⁋2 A fine open-mouthed Dog. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 336 I was attack'd by two Wenches that came open Mouth'd at me just as I was going out at the Door. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc x. 508 [He] then beholds the inevitable shark Close on him open-mouthed. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. iv. 182 Hounds running at them open-mouthed. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxv. 626 Lowering thy keel among ravening sharks, and followed by them, open-mouthed to the chase. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/3 An open-mouthed army, like an open-mouthed individual, does not strike one as particularly intelligent. 1991 Music & Lett. 72 63 A group of four—two young men and two girls—are engaged in a carole en ronde, the open-mouthed young man at right being the leader. b. figurative. Having an aperture which is open or may be likened to an open mouth. ΚΠ a1632 J. Webster & W. Rowley Cure for Cuckold (1661) iv. i. sig. F^v My purse shall run open mouth'd at thee. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 65 Her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greasy landskip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth'd gap, overshaded with a grizzly bush. 1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby viii. 78 While we are gazing at it with all its branches extended, and all its open-mouthed bells expanded, the passing of a vagrant animalcule..causes the whole array to contract. 1874 Nature 3 Sept. 370/1 The change from the slender, tubular, open-mouthed to the inflated closed-mouthed pitchers [of Darlingtonia] is..sudden. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate (1967) vii. 284 The Tomb of Lazarus stood open-mouthed by the roadside. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Mar. 9/1 Florets—the mountain laurel—float open mouthed, devout, set swaying by the wake of the flatboat. c. Of a vessel or container: having a wide mouth. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [adjective] > having specific type of mouth wide-mouthed1542 narrow-mouthed1563 narrow-necked1605 open-mouthed1660 wide-mouth1822 hole-mouth1909 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxii. 177 The open-mouth'd Glass was by this means almost replenished. 1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Cyder The apples are then ground, and the pummice is received in a large open-mouthed vessel. 1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 186 Each molecule of the organs is in a manner placed between two open-mouthed vessels. 1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses xix. 308 In Mr. Cuming's collection is an open-mouthed glass tumbler, a family relic. 1939 J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete iv. 244 The open-mouthed crater has come into fashion. 1989 Jrnl. Middle Atlantic Archaeol. 5 69 Chicha is a maize beer, brewed by boiling maize flour and water..and then placing it into tinajones, larger open-mouthed jars, to cool. 3. Gaping, as with astonishment, anticipation, surprise, or incomprehension. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adjective] > open-mouthed with open mouth1548 open-mouthed?1606 slack-jawed1642 slack-mouthed1642 ?1606 M. Drayton Eglog v, in Poemes sig. E4 This fond gentility, Whereon the foole world open mouthed gazes. 1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto i Some of the vulgar spectators had run to the great church which stood near the castle and came back open-mouthed. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 158 The poor peasants..remained open-mouthed with surprize. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xiii. 160 Mr. Swiveller looked, as he was, all open-mouthed astonishment. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 56 Yet did the shipmen stay their speech And open-mouthed upon her stare. 1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 195 Whole rows of ladies, with the slightly open-mouthed, adenoidal expression of vicarious romance, sat forward in their chairs. 1988 Times 14 Oct. 27/6 Old hands in the takeover game have watched open mouthed at the antics of consolidated Gold Fields to sink the bid from Minorco. Derivatives ˌopen-ˈmouthedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] overspeecheOE tongue-itch1540 multiloquy1542 long tongue1557 garrulity1581 slipperiness1589 polylogy1602 volubility1602 loquacity1603 lubricity1603 tonguiness1607 overspeakinga1610 talkativeness1609 philology1623 tongue-vice1628 glibness1633 futility1640 linguacity1656 garrulousness1727 linguosity1727 loquaciousness1727 multiloquiousness1727 jaw1748 multiloquence1760 flippancy1789 verbal diarrhoea1808 magpiety1832 big mouth1834 pleniloquence1838 chattiness1876 open-mouthedness1883 gabbiness1887 garrulance1890 irreticence1919 talkiness1934 ear-bashing1945 mee-mawing1974 1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 973/1 He confessed, with his usual incurable open-mouthedness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1470
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