Meaning of tear-mouth | Babel Free
Definitions
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A blustering, boisterous person. obsolete
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An overactor. obsolete
Examples
“You grow rich, do you, and purchase, you twopenny tear-mouth?”
“How would you, or how do you think I should, relish being the object of such a letter as Kean wrote t'other day to a poor author, who, though a pedantic blockhead, had at least the right to be treated as a gentleman by a copper-laced two-penny tearmouth, rendered mad by conceit and success?”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.