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Meaning of bemouth | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.
  2. To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat.

Examples

“Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power.”
“All made of Flanders cloth, And now bemouthed of many a moth […]”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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