Word.ws English Dictionary

flapped one's gums

flapped one's gums is the simple past and past participle of flap one's gums.

Meaning of flap one's gums

Verb

flap one's gums (third-person singular simple present flaps one's gums, present participle flapping one's gums, simple past and past participle flapped one's gums)

  1. (US, colloquial, idiomatic) To speak (idly); to talk without effect.
    • What's that old coot flapping his gums about this time?

Questions about flapped one's gums

What is flapped one's gums the simple past and past participle of?
Flapped one's gums is the simple past and past participle of flap one's gums.

Words near flapped one's gums in the dictionary

  1. flapling
  2. flaplings
  3. flappable
  4. flapped
  5. flapped off
  6. flapped one's gums
  7. flapped one's jaw
  8. flapped one's jaws
  9. flapped one's lips
  10. flapped outfall
  11. flapped outfalls

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flapped one's gums (page history and authors); flap one's gums (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “flapped one's gums.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/flapped_one%27s_gums. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.