tear-mouth
tear-mouth noun: a blustering, boisterous person.
Noun
tear-mouth (plural tear-mouths)
- A blustering, boisterous person.
- An overactor.
- You grow rich, do you, and purchase, you twopenny tear-mouth?1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster, act 3, scene 1
- How would you, or how do you think I should, relish being the object of such a letter as Kean wrote t'other day to a poor author, who, though a pedantic blockhead, had at least the right to be treated as a gentleman by a copper-laced two-penny tearmouth, rendered mad by conceit and success?1819 April, Sir Walter Scott, [Letter to Robert Southey]
Adjective
tear-mouth (comparative more tear-mouth, superlative most tear-mouth)
Forms of tear-mouth
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tear-mouths |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more tear-mouth |
| superlative | most tear-mouth |
Origin of tear-mouth
From tear + mouth.
Questions about tear-mouth
- What does tear-mouth mean?
- Tear-mouth means a blustering, boisterous person.
- What part of speech is tear-mouth?
- Tear-mouth can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of tear-mouth?
- The plural of tear-mouth is tear-mouths.
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