mouth

Noun

• the opening of a jar or bottle
  • the jar had a wide mouth
    

• an impudent or insolent rejoinder
  • don't give me any of your sass
    

• a spokesperson (as a lawyer)

• a person conceived as a consumer of food
  • he has four mouths to feed
    

• the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
  • New York is at the mouth of the Hudson
    

• an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
  • he rode into the mouth of the canyon
    
  • they built a fire at the mouth of the cave
    

• the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
  • she wiped lipstick from her mouth
    

• the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
  • he stuffed his mouth with candy
    

Verb

• touch with the mouth

• articulate silently; form words with the lips only
  • She mouthed a swear word
    

• express in speech
  • She talks a lot of nonsense
    
  • This depressed patient does not verbalize
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sass , sassing , backtalk , back talk , lip , mouthpiece , oral cavity , oral fissure , rima oris , talk , speak , utter , verbalize , verbalise