mouthie

English

Etymology

From mouth +‎ -ie.

Noun

mouthie (plural mouthies)

1. (childish) A mouth.
   • 1865, [Susan Stirling], “At the Ramsays on a Party Day”, in Sedgely Court: A Tale, volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 78:

     “[…] what on earth is the matter that your little mouthie is bleeding that way like a sheep?”

   • [between 1870 and 1892?], John Blair, “Foreign Poets”, in Collection of Rhymes, &c., Parkhill, Ont.: […] the Gazette Printing House, part II, page 11:

     Closed thine eyes and little mouthie; […]

   • 1900 March, “Fingerings”, in The Educational Review, St. John, N.B., page 233, column 1:

     Open wide the little mouthie, / Pop one finger in!

   • 1948 December, Cynthia Medley, “Letter To A Friend”, in The Epaulet, volume IX, number 1, the Students of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, page 9, column 1:

     After cleaning myself up and wiping her cute little mouthie, she was at it again.

   • 1909, Alexander F., Isabel C. Chamberlain, “Studies of a Child. IV. “Meanings” and “Definitions” in the Forty-Seventh and Forty-Eighth Months”, in G[ranville] Stanley Hall, editor, The Pedagogical Seminary: A Quarterly; International Record of Educational Literature, Institutions and Progress, volume XVI, Worcester, Mass.: Florence Chandler, […], page 77:

     You throw ’em and the dogs go and pick ’em up with their mouthies.

   • 1989, Daniel Pinkwater, “Psychopathia Snacksualis”, in Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommontaries and Vulgar Excesses, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, part one (Crack the Whip and Pass the Chips), page 19:

     Putting the lobster in your little mouthie.