big mouth

[big-mouth] Origin

big·mouth

[big-mouth]
noun, plural big·mouths [-mouthz, -mouths] for 1; (especially collectively) big·mouth, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) big·mouths for 2.
1.
a loud, talkative person, especially one who lacks discretion.
2.
any of several fishes having an unusually large mouth.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; big1 + mouth
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Big mouth is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Word Origin & History

big mouth
also bigmouth "person who talks too much," 1889, Amer.Eng., from big + mouth
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big mouth definition


  1. n.
    a person who talks too much or too loudly; someone who tells secrets. (Also a term of address.) : Okay, big mouth! Shut up!
  2. tv.
    to spread secrets around. : Why do you always have to big mouth everything around?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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