badmouth

Questions about badmouth

What does badmouth mean?

badmouth means "speak unfavorably about".

How many syllables are in badmouth?

badmouth has 2 syllables: bad-mouth. The stress falls on "mouth".

What is another word for badmouth?

Close synonyms include malign, traduce, drag through the mud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is badmouth a common word?

badmouth is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.