mouthing
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
mouthing
- present participle and gerund of mouth
- present participle and gerund of mouthe
Noun[edit]
mouthing (plural mouthings)
- The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.
- 2013, Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, Ceil Lucas, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, page 382:
- Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).
- Ranting; passionate speech devoid of meaning.
- 1941, Players Magazine:
- Kearn did not rant, he did not deafen you with heroics and empty mouthings.
Translations[edit]
in sign languages
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