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動詞

bemouth (三人称単数 現在形 bemouths, 現在分詞 bemouthing, 過去形および過去分詞形 bemouthed)

1. (transitive) To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.
2. (transitive) To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat.
   • 1841, Miss M. Corbett, The New Happy Week, page 161:

     Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power.

   • 1879, Theodore Tilton, The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume:

     All made of Flanders cloth,
     And now bemouthed of many a moth […]