mouth bow

Questions about mouth bow

What is another word for mouth bow?

It depends which mouth bow you mean. In the sense “a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity”, the synonyms are jew's harp, jews' harp. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mouth bow?

WordNet records no antonym for mouth bow. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mouth bow come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mouth bow

• Full entry for mouth bowAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mouth bowWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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