Word Meanings - SPLAYMOUTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to SPLAYMOUTH)

• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• MOUTHED
  1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
• STRETCHING
  from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
• MOUTH
  An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. The opening or entrance of any
• STRETCH
  OHG. strecchen, Sw. sträcka, Dan. strække; cf. AS. stræck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps 1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in
• STRETCHER
  A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stretches.
• MOUTHPIECE
  1. The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe. 2. An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or
• MOUTH-FOOTED
  Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
• DERISION
  1. The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision
• MOUTH-MADE
  Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. "Mouth-made vows." Shak.
• MOUTHER
  One who mouths; an affected speaker.
• MOUTHLESS
  Destitute of a mouth.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• FLAP-MOUTHED
  Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
• HOT-MOUTHED
  Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.
• FOUL-MOUTHED
  Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.
• FROGMOUTH
  One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus ; -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
• FLUTEMOUTH
  A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• SALTMOUTH
  A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.
• BLACK-MOUTHED
  Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
• PIPEMOUTH
  Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia.
• POUCH-MOUTHED
  Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.
• BELL-MOUTHED
  Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. Byron.
• HARD-MOUTHED
  Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard- mouthed horse.