单词 | bad-mouth |
释义 | bad-mouth —bad-mouther, n. /bad"mowth'/ or, sometimes, /-mowdh'/, v.t., bad-mouthed, bad-mouthing. Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much? Also, badmouth. [1935-40; orig. a curse, spell (the sense recorded in Gullah); cf. Vai (Mande language of Liberia and Sierra Leone) dà nyà mà curse, lit., bad mouth] |
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