mouthable

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English

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Etymology

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From mouth +‎ -able.

Adjective

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mouthable (not comparable)

  1. That may be taken into the mouth, especially in terms of objects in a house that an infant may suck on and which must therefore be free from toxic substances such as lead.
  2. (informal) Fine-sounding, of spoken words.
    • 1950, Richard Church, Poems for speaking: an anthology with an essay on reading aloud:
      [] while our poetry rollicked in mouthable lines that, like the face of Helen 'launched a thousand ships []
    • 1975, The Listener, volume 94, page 281:
      [] probably the most mouthable of the self-mocking wisecracks []