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word of mouth, by by word of mouthThrough the verbal sharing of information. A: "How did you hear about our bakery?" B: "Oh, by word of mouth. My dad told me about it." We don't have the budget for a big marketing campaign, so we'll just have to hope that buzz about our shop gets spread by word of mouth.See also: by, mouth, of, wordword of mouthThe verbal sharing of information. A: "How did you hear about our bakery?" B: "Oh, word of mouth. My dad told me about it." We don't have the budget for a big marketing campaign, so we'll just have to hope that buzz about our shop gets spread by word of mouth.See also: mouth, of, wordby word of mouthby speaking rather than writing. I learned about it by word of mouth. I need it in writing. I don't trust things I hear about by word of mouth.See also: by, mouth, of, wordword of mouth, byOrally, by one person telling another, as in They don't advertise; they get all their customers by word of mouth. [Mid-1500s] See also: by, of, wordword of mouth spoken language; informal or unofficial discourse. 1987 Bruce Duffy The World As I Found It His ideas were repeated by word of mouth or passed around as transcripts of the shorthand notes that his students doggedly took down during his lectures. See also: mouth, of, wordby ˌword of ˈmouth in spoken, not written, words: The news spread by word of mouth.‘By word of mouse’ (= a computer mouse) is a humorous version of this that refers to communication by email, etc.See also: by, mouth, of, wordword of mouth, byOrally. This phrase dates from the sixteenth century and persists to the present, though simply “orally” would be more direct. “A little message unto hir by worde of mouth,” wrote Nicholas Udall in Ralph Roister Doister (ca. 1553), presumably differentiating it from a written message.See also: by, of, word |