mouthable

mouthable

English

Etymology

mouth +‎ -able

Adjective

mouthable (not comparable)

1. That may be taken into the mouth, especially in terms of objects in a house that an infant may suck on and which must therefore be free from toxic substances such as lead.
2. (informal) Fine-sounding, of spoken words.
   • 1950, Richard Church, Poems for speaking: an anthology with an essay on reading aloud

     […] while our poetry rollicked in mouthable lines that, like the face of Helen 'launched a thousand ships […]

   • 1975, The Listener (volume 94, page 281)

     […] probably the most mouthable of the self-mocking wisecracks […]