tear-mouth
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
tear-mouth (plural tear-mouths)
- (obsolete) A blustering, boisterous person.
- (obsolete, acting) An overactor.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster, act 3, scene 1:
- You grow rich, do you, and purchase, you twopenny tear-mouth?
- 1819 April, Sir Walter Scott, [Letter to Robert Southey]:
- How would you, or how do you think I should, relish being the object of such a letter as Kean wrote t'other day to a poor author, who, though a pedantic blockhead, had at least the right to be treated as a gentleman by a copper-laced two-penny tearmouth, rendered mad by conceit and success?
Related terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tear-mouth (comparative more tear-mouth, superlative most tear-mouth)
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:noisy
References[edit]
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “tear-mouth”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume VII, [London: […] Neill and Co.] […], →OCLC, page 89.