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mouth breather

mouth breather noun: a person who routinely inhales and exhales through the mouth, instead of through the nose.

Noun

mouth breather (plural mouth breathers)

  1. A person who routinely inhales and exhales through the mouth, instead of through the nose.
    • Respirations cannot be recorded by this method, if the subject is a mouth breather (as no air flows by the thermistor in the nose).1967, Nancy J. Barron, “A Ride in the Human Centrifuge”, in American Journal of Nursing, volume 67, number 8, page 1654
  2. (derogatory, idiomatic, slang) A person who is boorish, stupid, or otherwise unattractive.
    • She's a philosophy major from Brown, now working retail at Niagara Falls, living in a trailer and working for a "mouth breather" of a boss.2004 March 12, Tim Goodman, “Trinkets are spirit guides in Fox's brilliant 'Wonderfalls'”, in San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2010
    • That tiny blue slice is what’s left of the Coalition (both Liberals and Nationals), squeezed between the teals and a barbarian horde of mouthbreathers, grifters and flat-out, flat-earth fucking weirdos gathered under the bright-orange war banner of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — or, as they would...2026 June 3, John Birmingham, “Neoliberalism ate the world. Enter: Pauline Hanson”, in Crikey

mouth breather meaning in Bengali

mouth breather in Bengali

নির্বোধ, অপ্রীতিকর

Forms of mouth breather

pluralmouth breathers
alternative formmouth-breather
alternative formmouthbreather

Questions about mouth breather

What does mouth breather mean?
Mouth breather means a person who routinely inhales and exhales through the mouth, instead of through the nose.
What is mouth breather in Bengali?
Mouth breather in Bengali is নির্বোধ, অপ্রীতিকর. See Mouth breather meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is mouth breather?
Mouth breather is a noun.
What is the plural of mouth breather?
The plural of mouth breather is mouth breathers.

Words near mouth breather in the dictionary

  1. moutan
  2. moutans
  3. mouth
  4. mouth bar
  5. mouth bars
  6. mouth breather
  7. mouth breathers
  8. mouth breathing
  9. mouth breathings
  10. mouth cavities
  11. mouth cavity

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