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cotton-mouth

cotton-mouth is the alternative form of cottonmouth.

Meaning of cottonmouth

Noun

cottonmouth (countable and uncountable, plural cottonmouths)

  1. (uncountable) An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs.
  2. A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.
  3. A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.

Forms of cotton-mouth

pluralcotton-mouths

Questions about cotton-mouth

What is cotton-mouth the alternative form of?
Cotton-mouth is the alternative form of cottonmouth.

Words near cotton-mouth in the dictionary

  1. cotton-candy
  2. cotton-fish
  3. cotton-fishes
  4. cotton-headed
  5. cotton-headed ninny-muggins
  6. cotton-mouth
  7. Cotton-Mouton effect
  8. Cotton-Mouton effects
  9. cotton-picking
  10. cotton-spinner
  11. cotton-spinners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cotton-mouth (page history and authors); cottonmouth (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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