gapemouthed
See also: gape-mouthed
English
Adjective
gapemouthed (comparative more gapemouthed, superlative most gapemouthed)
- Alternative form of gape-mouthed
- 2003, Blues Revue - Issues 80-85, page 63:
- While the rock world seemed generally gapemouthed by the tragedy and the country crowd descended to knee-jerk jingoism, blues artists tried to put the whole horrible business in some sort of perspective.
- 2013, Stephen King, Doctor Sleep: A Novel, →ISBN:
- One showed a gapemouthed cluster of little folks watching a magician pull a white rabbit from a hat.
- 2013, Peter Bowen, The Yellowstone Kelly Novels, →ISBN:
- Every time I talk to a woman about some things I am left gapemouthed and wishing terribly that I had a large dog with a heavily callused butt.
- 1993, Susan Malone, By the Book: A Novel, →ISBN, page 101:
- Standing on the big chair, she stuffed them into that gapemouthed fish.
- 1974, James B. Meriwether, A Faulkner Miscellany, page 23:
- There are no more gapemouthed crocuses, or poppies wide with woe to wreath her fingers; the earth is a hunched and sightless woman, holding herself together with her hair.
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Adverb
gapemouthed (comparative more gapemouthed, superlative most gapemouthed)
- Alternative form of gape-mouthed
- 1984, Fred Saberhagen, Machines That Kill, →ISBN, page 164:
- Abreast of the first soldier, he too took in the round collar and halted gapemouthed.
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