mouthとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English mouth, from 古期英語 mūþ (“mouth, opening, door, gate”), from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian müd, müth, müss (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian munn (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Gothic ���������� (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite [script needed] (mēni, “chin”).

An illustration of the inside of a human mouth, with cheeks cut and lips pulled back.

発音

(noun):

• enPR: mouth, IPA^(key): /maʊθ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /mʌʊθ/
• 韻: -aʊθ

(verb):

• enPR: mouth, IPA^(key): /maʊð/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /mʌʊθ/, /maʊð/
• 韻: -aʊð

名詞

mouth (複数形 mouths)

1. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

   "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

2. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.

   The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.

3. An outlet, aperture or orifice.

   The mouth of a cave

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’

   • 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 42:

     But why give a tunnel mouth any decoration whatsoever?

4. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.

   My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.

5. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
6. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
   • 1712 June 23, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “THURSDAY, June 12, 1712 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 403; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.

7. (obsolete) Cry; voice.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 18:16:

     that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established

9. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:mouth

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: mofo

派生語

Pages starting with “mouth”.

動詞

mouth (三人称単数 現在形 mouths, 現在分詞 mouthing, 過去形および過去分詞形 mouthed)

1. (transitive) To speak; to utter.

   He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.

   • 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers

     mouthing big phrases

2. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.

   The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.

3. (transitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
4. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     Everyone is kind of aroused, Thanatz is sitting up on the bar having his own as yet unsheathed penis mouthed by one of the white-gloved Wends.

   The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.

5. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

7. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of R. Blair to this entry?)

派生語