poormouth
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See also: poor-mouth and poor mouth
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]poormouth (third-person singular simple present poormouths, present participle poormouthing, simple past and past participle poormouthed)
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) To claim to be poor.
Translations
[edit]claim to be poor
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “poor mouth”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.