Thesaurus:mouth
THESAURUS | mouth |
English
Synonyms
- bazoo (US, slang)
- cakehole (slang)
- chops (plural only)
- gob (slang)
- kisser (slang)
- laughing gear (slang)
- maw
- mouth
- mush (slang)
- ned (obsolete)
- north and south (Cockney rhyming slang)
- oral cavity
- os
- piehole (slang)
- puss (slang)
- sucker
- trap (slang)
- yap (slang)
Meronyms
- grill (slang)
- gums
- jaw
- lip
- palate
- tooth [WS]
- tongue
Holonyms
- countenance [WS]
- face
- head [WS]
- body [WS]
- snout
- muzzle
- —
- facial expression [WS]
- mien
Hypernym
- body part
- orifice
Various
- a closed mouth gathers no feet
- all mouth and trousers
- bad taste in one's mouth
- butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
- don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- down in the mouth
- foam at the mouth
- hush one's mouth
- keep a civil tongue in one's mouth
- keep one's mouth shut
- lie ill in one's mouth
- mouth of a sailor
- one's heart in one's mouth
- open one's big mouth
- out of the mouths of babes
- potty mouth
- put words in someone's mouth
- put one's foot in one's mouth
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- shoot off at the mouth
- shut one's mouth
- straight from the horse's mouth
- wash your mouth out
- watch one's mouth
See also
- Thesaurus:smile
Further reading
- “mouth” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “mouth” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.