Meaning of Mouthing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.
2. Ranting; passionate speech devoid of meaning.

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Examples

“Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).”

“Kearn did not rant, he did not deafen you with heroics and empty mouthings.”

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