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mouth off

mouth off verb: to complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner.

Verb

mouth off (third-person singular simple present mouths off, present participle mouthing off, simple past and past participle mouthed off)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner.
  2. (ambitransitive, slang) To talk impudently, especially to one's superior.
    • And don't you mouth off to me, or I'm gonna slap you right in your penis.2008, “Play It Again, Brian”, in Family Guy, Herbert (actor)

mouth off meaning in Malayalam

mouth off in Malayalam

declaim, rant, spout
തൊള്ളതുറക്കുക, ഒച്ചവയ്ക്കുക, വായാടുക, വാഗ്വൈഭവം പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുക, വാചാടോപത്തോടെ സംസാരിക്കുക, വാഗ്ധാടിയോടെ പ്രസ്താവിക്കുക

Synonyms of mouth off

Forms of mouth off

third-person singular presentmouths off
present participlemouthing off
past participlemouthed off
pastmouthed off

Origin of mouth off

From mouth + off.

Questions about mouth off

What does mouth off mean?
Mouth off means to complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner.
What is mouth off in Malayalam?
Mouth off in Malayalam is തൊള്ളതുറക്കുക, ഒച്ചവയ്ക്കുക, വായാടുക. See Mouth off meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is mouth off?
Mouth off is a verb.
What is the past tense of mouth off?
The past tense of mouth off is mouthed off.

Words near mouth off in the dictionary

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  2. mouth mirror
  3. mouth mirrors
  4. mouth music
  5. mouth of a sailor
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  7. mouth organ
  8. mouth organist
  9. mouth organists
  10. mouth organs
  11. mouth rape

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mouth off (page history and authors); mouth off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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