mouthfilling

English

Etymology

From mouth +‎ filling.

Adjective

mouthfilling (comparative more mouthfilling, superlative most mouthfilling)

1. Impressive and/or grandiloquent.
   • c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature F.iii, verso:

     Sweare me Kate like a ladie as thou art, / A good mouthfilling oath, and leaue in ſooth, / And ſuch proteſt of pepper ginger bread / To veluet gards, and Sunday Citizens.

   • 1902, George Mather Richards, “Nemesis”, in The Guilelmensian, Williamstown, Mass.: […] [T]he Junior Class of Williams College, page 286:

     When he had nearly missed—as of course he intended to do, thereby startling the reader—the mouth of the cavern, and when he had struck his flints viciously– which implies a hasty temper and is a mouthfilling word—and when the dry wood had spluttered, as if it were wet, and had crackled into a flame—just to show how dry it was—and when he had cast a nervous, furtive, dime-novel glance around and had cast his skins from his breast the mystery is displayed—a fearful, rough-hewn flint axe with dark brownish streaks, which is a very terrible suggestion, I say when he had done all this, his diminutive little red eyes gleamed with whole-souled satisfaction.

   • 1909 May 18, The Atlanta Constitution, volume XLI, number 337, Atlanta, Ga., page 6, column 1:

     Boston calls him “Tahft,” which is more of a mouthfilling name.

   • 1912 November 9, “Graphites”, in The Graphic, volume XXXVII, number 24, Los Angeles, Calif., page 3, column 3:

     Bryan for secretary of state, Dr. Wiley for secretary of agriculture, Louis D. Brandeis for attorney general! It is a mouthfilling trio.

   • 1940 October 19, “‘Decadent’ Democracies ‘Barring Progress’”, in Army Times: National Weekly Newspaper For The United States Army, volume 1, number 10, Washington, D.C., page 4, column 1:

     “Decadent” is a mouthfilling word which means that the democracies have grown senile, their vigor and strength are falling into ruin and decay.

   • 1967, Jerome D[avid] Frank, “Psychological Aspects of Prewar Crises and War”, in Sanity and Survival: Psychological Aspects of War and Peace, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 188:

     Another psychological process that may help to explain why a war absorbs more and more of the combatants’ emotions and energies has been given the mouthfilling designation “circular incremental magnification.”

   • 1970 April 1, Sanford Berman, “African Magazines for American Libraries”, in Library Journal, volume 95, number 7, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., page 1290, column 1:

     African Literature Today. […] A necessary exception—like Sechaba—to the “made in Africa” dictum, this “forum for the examination of the literature of Africa,” which supersedes the “mouthfilling” Bulletin of the Association for African Literature in English, is edited by Eldred D. Jones, professor of English at the University of Sierra Leone.

   • 1980, Charles W. McCollester, “A Lion of a Different Mane: The ‘Spitting Lyon’ of Vermont”, in Roger Parks, editor, The New England Galaxy: The Best of 20 Years from Old Sturbridge Village, Chester, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 75, column 2:

     In his own journal bearing the mouthfilling title, Lyon’s Republican Magazine, the Scourge of Aristocracy and Repository of Important Political Truths, Lyon advised Americans that they should prepare to resist Federalist efforts to impose a “state of abject slavery.”

2. Flavorful
   • 1990, Steven Spurrier, Michel Dovaz, Académie du Vin Wine Course: The Complete Course in Wine Appreciation, Tasting and Study of the Paris Académie du Vin, London: Mitchell Beazley in association with Christie’s Wine Publications, →ISBN, page 177, column 3:

     Quite mouthfilling, if not intense, good balance if not very long.

   • 2007, Michael Cooper, Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide to New Zealand Wines 2008, Auckland: Hodder Moa, →ISBN, page 57:

     French oak-fermented and lees-stirred, it is mouthfilling and creamy-smooth, in a softly structured style with vibrant, grapefruit-like flavours and a touch of mealy, biscuity complexity.

   • 2017 May 7, David Williams, “A taste of Croatia”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-07:

     A recent standout, which I tasted blind alongside a range of equally excellent Greek dry whites, Veralda’s example has a mouthwatering tension between mouthfilling tropical fruitiness, olive oiliness, tingling lemon and minerals that would be superb with meaty white fish with herby accompaniments.