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bemouthed

bemouthed is the simple past and past participle of bemouth.

Meaning of bemouth

Verb

bemouth (third-person singular simple present bemouths, present participle bemouthing, simple past and past participle bemouthed)

  1. (transitive) To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.
  2. (transitive) To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat.
    • Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power.1841, Miss M. Corbett, The New Happy Week, page 161

Questions about bemouthed

What is bemouthed the simple past and past participle of?
Bemouthed is the simple past and past participle of bemouth.

Words near bemouthed in the dictionary

  1. bemotrizinol
  2. bemourn
  3. bemourns
  4. bemoustached
  5. bemouth
  6. bemouthed
  7. bemouthing
  8. bemouths
  9. bemow
  10. bemows
  11. bemoysten

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bemouthed (page history and authors); bemouth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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