wide-mouthedadj.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪdmaʊðd/,

/ˈwʌɪdmaʊθt/, U.S.

/ˈwaɪdˌmaʊθ(t)/

Forms: see wide adj. and mouthed adj.

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

Etymology: < wide adj. + mouthed adj.

a. Esp. of a container or receptacle: having a wide opening.

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

1542 T. Becon Newes out of Heauen sig. D.vi Their throte is lyke a wide mouthed graue.

1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes sig. Liii Put an Eele alyue into some wyde mouthed potte with a couer.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mortier, the short, and wide-mouthed peece of Ordnance called a Morter.

1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mechanicall: 1st Pt. xxix. 97 Having in wide-mouth'd Glasses..expos'd to the Air a strong Solution of common Sea-salt.

a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 92 Two wide-mouth'd Quivers fill'd with Store, Of deadly Darts.

1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper 343 Put your Goosberries into wide mouthed Bottles.

1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline i. ii. 52 The wide-mouthed fireplace.

1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 61 Another of these sea-bottom fishes hangs like an open wide-mouthed meal-bag.

1924 J. B. Cohen Pract. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 121 The crude sodium salt of dichloracetic acid is powdered, and transferred to a wide-mouthed bottle.

2004 J. O'Sullivan New Bk. Wedding Flowers 45 If you use a wide-mouthed container, your flowers will spread out naturally unless you use a support.

b. Of a person or animal: having a wide mouth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > types of

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

1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard sig. F^v A wyde-mouth'd Mastiue Currre.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Diable de mer,..the ouglie wide-mouthed fish, called, the sea Frog.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Fendu Bien fendu de gueule, wide-mouthed, sparrow-mouthed.

1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone Descr. Nature Four-footed Beasts iii. 64/2 Small-faced he [sc. the Libard, or Leopard] is, wide mouthed, his eyes litle whitish, and wandring.

1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus Colloq. 141 A long-visag'd, Scald-headed, bald-pated,..wide-mouth'd,..bandy-legg'd Fellow.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Godiva in Poems (new ed.) II. 114 The little wide-mouth'd heads upon the spout.

1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 86 Wide-mouthed Fishes (Plagiostomi).

1973 J. Gardam Summer after Funeral (1977) i. 15 Beams was ugly, with the face of a frog—wide mouthed, chinless, thin hair in palish wisps and a gooping expression.

2012 J. H. Mol Freshwater Fishes Suriname xii. 518 Head large and wide-mouthed.

2. Having the mouth wide open, or opening the mouth wide, in order to eat or swallow; (hence) voracious, devouring, destructive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devouring

nimminga1225

devouringa1382

swallowinga1400

whelmingc1440

consumingc1475

wide-mouthed1567

devoratory1647

consumptive1651

bloodsucking1658

involving1737

engulfing1761

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 10^v Theis wyde mowthed Rokes do seke and gape to deuoure thy honour & liuing.

1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. F1^v That wide-mouth'd time..shall shut his iawes, & ne're deuoure thy name.

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche iv. lv. 45 Here wide-mouth'd Luxury Might gormandize her fill.

a1656 R. Loveday Lett. (1659) li. 96 If we do not suffer one wide-mouthed wo to swallow all our joyes.

1710 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. I. xxv. 306 No sooner is this wide-mouth'd Glutton gone, But t'other lean jaw'd Cormorant sneaks down.

1825 E. E. Crowe To-day in Ireland III. i. vii. 148 Tim had a little regiment of that second wife's children, wide mouthed to devour, and to demand the wherewithal to devour.

1887 G. Meredith Phaethon in Ballads & Poems 156 The rage of the havoc wide-mouthed.

1907 G. Massey Anc. Egypt II. 835 He overthrew the monster that assailed her in the dark, which was figured as the wide-mouthed crocodile or devouring dragon.

2003 D. D. Gilmore Monsters x. 178 The American Thunderbird and the monster-avians of east Asia and the Pacific feed human victims to their wide-mouthed young.

3. Having the mouth wide open, or opening the mouth wide, in order to speak or to express an emotion (as amazement, surprise, etc.); characterized by having the mouth open in such a manner. Hence also: loud, unrestrained; (in early use) †using long words or inflated language (obsolete).

a. Of a person.

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

1589 J. Thorie tr. B. Filippe Counseller vi. 22 Such a one in giuing counsell, is obstinate, and in secrets, wide-mouthed [Sp. boquiroto].

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 355 Catchpoll, Crier, and of that ranke, Wide-mouth'd Jugler or mount-banke.

1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. I3^v A wide-mouth'de..Poet, that speakes nothing but bladders and bombast.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 159 His Sonnets charm'd th' attentive Crowd, By wide-mouth'd Mortal trol'd aloud.

1745 C. Cibber in W. Ayre Mem. Pope II. 85 This..is a Scent, that those wide-mouth'd Hounds the Daily-Paper Criticks could never hit off!

1773 W. Kenrick Duellist iv. ii. 63 To hear wide-mouthed hawkers cry my last dying-speech and confession!

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 882/2 That Xanthus, a horse, should have not only spoken so well, but at all, has set all the wide-mouthed critics agape.

1861 D. Costello Holidays with Hobgoblins 292 ‘Lobsters!’ There is a wide-mouthed fellow crying them before my door at this moment.

1903 M.A.P. 11 137/1 His face wide-eyed and wide-mouthed in a voiceless panic.

1980 Times 22 Oct. 8/6 The goalkeeper..chose instead to backheel the ball infield to a wide-mouthed colleague.

2015 Herald (Harare) (Nexis) 22 Aug. This is why the MDCs [= Movement for Democratic Change] are in such a deep crisis, however loud and wide-mouthed their spokespersons may be.

b. Of a person's verbal or facial expression, emotion, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > extravagant, excessive > in expression

wide-mouthed1593

phrasingc1626

the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [adjective] > types of smile

wide-mouthed1658

worn-out1842

Mona Lisa1894

Gioconda1921

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

1593 A. Chute in G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation sig. Gg2^v Thy wydemouth'd..phrase..Aptly hath knowne thine Armory to blase In termes peculiar vnto none but thee.

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xiii. xcv. 225 His wide-mouth'd Blasphemies.

1658 J. Quarles Hist. Most Vile Dimagoras iii. 105 She..bestows A wide-mouth'd smile upon him.

1668 Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 603 Those wide-mouthed Languages, which do remarkably expose to the Eye the Motions of the Tongue, Lips, Throat, &c.

1750 W. Dodd New Bk. Dunciad 19 Their King with wide-mouth'd wonder they survey.

1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad v. 201 A wide-mouth'd laugh confest his barbarous joy.

1837 M. Boddington Sketches in Pyrenees II. xxi. 365 Cries, shouts, groans, confounded together in a general roar, wide-mouthed and loud as thunder.

1859 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 285/1 Oh, the look of wide-mouthed astonishment which took possession of Youth's hitherto vacant features!

1948 Life 23 Aug. 101/1 Turning to me with a wide-mouthed smile and the expression of a child being handed a plate of particularly good-looking ice cream.

2014 Times 3 June 62/3 He has developed something of a new habit..—the wide-mouthed grin when he plays a sloppy shot or his serve goes cranky.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wide-mouthed
释义	wide-mouthedadj. Brit. /ˈwʌɪdmaʊðd/, /ˈwʌɪdmaʊθt/, U.S. /ˈwaɪdˌmaʊθ(t)/ Forms: see wide adj. and mouthed adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wide adj., mouthed adj. Etymology: < wide adj. + mouthed adj. 1. a. Esp. of a container or receptacle: having a wide opening. 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 1542 T. Becon Newes out of Heauen sig. D.vi Their throte is lyke a wide mouthed graue. 1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes sig. Liii Put an Eele alyue into some wyde mouthed potte with a couer. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mortier, the short, and wide-mouthed peece of Ordnance called a Morter. 1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mechanicall: 1st Pt. xxix. 97 Having in wide-mouth'd Glasses..expos'd to the Air a strong Solution of common Sea-salt. a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 92 Two wide-mouth'd Quivers fill'd with Store, Of deadly Darts. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper 343 Put your Goosberries into wide mouthed Bottles. 1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline i. ii. 52 The wide-mouthed fireplace. 1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 61 Another of these sea-bottom fishes hangs like an open wide-mouthed meal-bag. 1924 J. B. Cohen Pract. Org. Chem. (ed. 3) 121 The crude sodium salt of dichloracetic acid is powdered, and transferred to a wide-mouthed bottle. 2004 J. O'Sullivan New Bk. Wedding Flowers 45 If you use a wide-mouthed container, your flowers will spread out naturally unless you use a support. b. Of a person or animal: having a wide mouth. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > types of 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 1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard sig. F^v A wyde-mouth'd Mastiue Currre. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Diable de mer,..the ouglie wide-mouthed fish, called, the sea Frog. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Fendu Bien fendu de gueule, wide-mouthed, sparrow-mouthed. 1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone Descr. Nature Four-footed Beasts iii. 64/2 Small-faced he [sc. the Libard, or Leopard] is, wide mouthed, his eyes litle whitish, and wandring. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus Colloq. 141 A long-visag'd, Scald-headed, bald-pated,..wide-mouth'd,..bandy-legg'd Fellow. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Godiva in Poems (new ed.) II. 114 The little wide-mouth'd heads upon the spout. 1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 86 Wide-mouthed Fishes (Plagiostomi). 1973 J. Gardam Summer after Funeral (1977) i. 15 Beams was ugly, with the face of a frog—wide mouthed, chinless, thin hair in palish wisps and a gooping expression. 2012 J. H. Mol Freshwater Fishes Suriname xii. 518 Head large and wide-mouthed. 2. Having the mouth wide open, or opening the mouth wide, in order to eat or swallow; (hence) voracious, devouring, destructive. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devouring nimminga1225 devouringa1382 swallowinga1400 whelmingc1440 consumingc1475 wide-mouthed1567 devoratory1647 consumptive1651 bloodsucking1658 involving1737 engulfing1761 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 10^v Theis wyde mowthed Rokes do seke and gape to deuoure thy honour & liuing. 1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. F1^v That wide-mouth'd time..shall shut his iawes, & ne're deuoure thy name. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche iv. lv. 45 Here wide-mouth'd Luxury Might gormandize her fill. a1656 R. Loveday Lett. (1659) li. 96 If we do not suffer one wide-mouthed wo to swallow all our joyes. 1710 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. I. xxv. 306 No sooner is this wide-mouth'd Glutton gone, But t'other lean jaw'd Cormorant sneaks down. 1825 E. E. Crowe To-day in Ireland III. i. vii. 148 Tim had a little regiment of that second wife's children, wide mouthed to devour, and to demand the wherewithal to devour. 1887 G. Meredith Phaethon in Ballads & Poems 156 The rage of the havoc wide-mouthed. 1907 G. Massey Anc. Egypt II. 835 He overthrew the monster that assailed her in the dark, which was figured as the wide-mouthed crocodile or devouring dragon. 2003 D. D. Gilmore Monsters x. 178 The American Thunderbird and the monster-avians of east Asia and the Pacific feed human victims to their wide-mouthed young. 3. Having the mouth wide open, or opening the mouth wide, in order to speak or to express an emotion (as amazement, surprise, etc.); characterized by having the mouth open in such a manner. Hence also: loud, unrestrained; (in early use) †using long words or inflated language (obsolete). a. Of a person. 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 1589 J. Thorie tr. B. Filippe Counseller vi. 22 Such a one in giuing counsell, is obstinate, and in secrets, wide-mouthed [Sp. boquiroto]. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 355 Catchpoll, Crier, and of that ranke, Wide-mouth'd Jugler or mount-banke. 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. I3^v A wide-mouth'de..Poet, that speakes nothing but bladders and bombast. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 159 His Sonnets charm'd th' attentive Crowd, By wide-mouth'd Mortal trol'd aloud. 1745 C. Cibber in W. Ayre Mem. Pope II. 85 This..is a Scent, that those wide-mouth'd Hounds the Daily-Paper Criticks could never hit off! 1773 W. Kenrick Duellist iv. ii. 63 To hear wide-mouthed hawkers cry my last dying-speech and confession! 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 882/2 That Xanthus, a horse, should have not only spoken so well, but at all, has set all the wide-mouthed critics agape. 1861 D. Costello Holidays with Hobgoblins 292 ‘Lobsters!’ There is a wide-mouthed fellow crying them before my door at this moment. 1903 M.A.P. 11 137/1 His face wide-eyed and wide-mouthed in a voiceless panic. 1980 Times 22 Oct. 8/6 The goalkeeper..chose instead to backheel the ball infield to a wide-mouthed colleague. 2015 Herald (Harare) (Nexis) 22 Aug. This is why the MDCs [= Movement for Democratic Change] are in such a deep crisis, however loud and wide-mouthed their spokespersons may be. b. Of a person's verbal or facial expression, emotion, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > extravagant, excessive > in expression wide-mouthed1593 phrasingc1626 the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [adjective] > types of smile wide-mouthed1658 worn-out1842 Mona Lisa1894 Gioconda1921 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 1593 A. Chute in G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation sig. Gg2^v Thy wydemouth'd..phrase..Aptly hath knowne thine Armory to blase In termes peculiar vnto none but thee. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xiii. xcv. 225 His wide-mouth'd Blasphemies. 1658 J. Quarles Hist. Most Vile Dimagoras iii. 105 She..bestows A wide-mouth'd smile upon him. 1668 Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 603 Those wide-mouthed Languages, which do remarkably expose to the Eye the Motions of the Tongue, Lips, Throat, &c. 1750 W. Dodd New Bk. Dunciad 19 Their King with wide-mouth'd wonder they survey. 1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad v. 201 A wide-mouth'd laugh confest his barbarous joy. 1837 M. Boddington Sketches in Pyrenees II. xxi. 365 Cries, shouts, groans, confounded together in a general roar, wide-mouthed and loud as thunder. 1859 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 285/1 Oh, the look of wide-mouthed astonishment which took possession of Youth's hitherto vacant features! 1948 Life 23 Aug. 101/1 Turning to me with a wide-mouthed smile and the expression of a child being handed a plate of particularly good-looking ice cream. 2014 Times 3 June 62/3 He has developed something of a new habit..—the wide-mouthed grin when he plays a sloppy shot or his serve goes cranky. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1542
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