Meaning of cottonmouthed | Babel Free

Definitions

Suffering from cottonmouth; characterized by cottonmouth.

Examples

“It was the telephone jerking him out of it in a cold dry trembling cottonmouthed panic, gray light⟳ just beginning to show⟳ in the window across the hall outside his bedroom as he reached the instrument from its hook and put⟳ it against his ear as much to shut⟳ off the terrible head-cracking sound⟳ as to perform⟳ the proper reflex and say⟳ thickly, “Yes?””

“It was Billy Mitchell whose deep, wildly slurring cottonmouthed voice brought off the song, cut⟳ in April 1954, that stands as the Clovers’ masterpiece, “Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ but Trash,” written by the great Jesse Stone (doing business as Charles Calhoun).”

“He was doing a lot of coke and getting cottonmouthed and very slobby.”

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