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mouthly

mouthly adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the mouth or of mouths; oral.

Adjective

mouthly (comparative more mouthly, superlative most mouthly)

  1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the mouth or of mouths; oral.
    • Wherefore if in very deed they eat the Substance of the Flesh and Blood of Christ, they are not far from the mouthly eating of the Lutherans, […] Which if any one deny, the whole Building of the Mass and Transubstantiation falls to the ground, together with the mouthly and real Eating of the...1708, John Dunton, The phenix
    • Gerhard Botz organised an exploratory half-day session on oral history (or more precisely, 'mouthly history') […]1979, Oral History Society (Great Britain), Oral history

Forms of mouthly

comparativemore mouthly
superlativemost mouthly

Origin of mouthly

From mouth + -ly.

Questions about mouthly

What does mouthly mean?
Mouthly means of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the mouth or of mouths; oral.
What part of speech is mouthly?
Mouthly is an adjective.

Words near mouthly in the dictionary

  1. mouthless crabs
  2. mouthlessness
  3. mouthlike
  4. mouthline
  5. mouthlines
  6. mouthly
  7. mouthorgan
  8. mouthorgans
  9. mouthpart
  10. mouthparts
  11. mouthpie

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