Definitions for mouthful

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mouthful mouth·ful

Spelling: [mouth-foo l]

IPA: /ˈmaʊθˌfʊl/

Mouthful is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in mouthful (fhlmotuu).

Definitions for mouthful

noun

1. the amount a mouth can hold.
2. the amount taken into the mouth at one time.
3. a small quantity.
4. Informal. a spoken remark of great truth, relevance, effectiveness, etc.:
5. a long word or group of words, especially one that is hard to pronounce.

Origin of mouthful

1375-1425; late Middle English. See mouth, -ful

Examples for mouthful

Food in Calabria was pride, self-sufficiency and community all mixed together in one mouthful.

It was 4:30 in the morning, I had a mouthful of blood and raw chicken and it just—you get yourself into a very strange place.

Wherever the grass was greenest, there she nibbled a mouthful or two.

It was a mouthful of a lesson, but after learning it once, you never had to memorize it again.

Roland spat out a mouthful of dust and swore beneath his breath.

But also somebody who could handle a mouthful of exposition and make the words understandable and compelling.

The Swedish plane has got a mouthful of a name: the JAS 39E Gripen.

I think I'll let him have a feed, and have a mouthful of bread and cheese myself.'

Can't you let other folks eat a mouthful before you have to have yours?

Well,” said Richards, with a mouthful of it, “I call it darn good.