Word.ws English Dictionary

shuts one's mouth

shuts one's mouth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shut one's mouth.

Meaning of shut one's mouth

Verb

shut one's mouth (third-person singular simple present shuts one's mouth, present participle shutting one's mouth, simple past and past participle shut one's mouth)

  1. (idiomatic, impolite) To stop talking; to be quiet.
    • Why don’t you just shut your mouth? I’m tired of listening to you.

Questions about shuts one's mouth

What is shuts one's mouth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shuts one's mouth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shut one's mouth.

Words near shuts one's mouth in the dictionary

  1. shuts one's eyes
  2. shuts one's eyes and thinks of England
  3. shuts one's face
  4. shuts one's gob
  5. shuts one's head
  6. shuts one's mouth
  7. shuts one's trap
  8. shuts out
  9. shuts the stable door after the horse has bolted
  10. shuts up
  11. shuts up like a clam

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shuts one's mouth (page history and authors); shut one's mouth (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: “shuts one's mouth.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shuts_one%27s_mouth. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.