mouthing

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Verb

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mouthing

  1. present participle and gerund of mouth
  2. present participle and gerund of mouthe

Noun

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mouthing (plural mouthings)

  1. The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.
    • 2013, Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, Ceil Lucas, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, page 382:
      Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).
  2. Ranting; passionate speech devoid of meaning.
    • 1941, Players Magazine:
      Kearn did not rant, he did not deafen you with heroics and empty mouthings.

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