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mouthing

verbnounattested in dialogue

The act of forming a shape with the mouth.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of mouthpresent participle and gerund of mouth

  2. 2

    Also a form of mouthepresent participle and gerund of mouthe

noun

  1. 1

    The act of forming a shape with the mouth.

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

  2. 2

    Ranting; passionate speech devoid of meaning.

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

Forms

plural
mouthings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).