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say it: mowth
mouth is a noun and verb meaning "the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge". It carries 11 recorded senses.
the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
“he stuffed his mouth with candy”
the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
“she wiped lipstick from her mouth”
an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
“he rode into the mouth of the canyon”
“they built a fire at the mouth of the cave”
the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
“New York is at the mouth of the Hudson”
touch with the mouth
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mouth come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.