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bigmouth

American  
[big-mauth] / ˈbɪgˌmaʊθ /

noun

  • bigmouths,
    plural,  plural
  • bigmouth
    plural
  1. a loud, talkative person, especially one who lacks discretion.

  2. any of several fishes having an unusually large mouth.


bigmouth British  
/ ˈbɪɡˌmaʊθ /

noun

  1. slang a noisy, indiscreet, or boastful person

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of bigmouth

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; big 1 + mouth


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Minnesota has native populations of each of the three species studied: bigmouth buffalo, smallmouth buffalo and black buffalo.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

It’s the sound of a breezy bigmouth who talks like he has nothing to answer for, but who ultimately knows he has an audience to answer to.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022

On Good Morning America, a tech bigmouth named Bob Metcalfe claimed he’d seen IT, and IT was bigger than the internet.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021

But we should not go on and on, pretending that this is just another felonious bigmouth who doesn’t deserve to serve.

From Washington Times ● May 4, 2021

David Schramm, his shirt heavily streaked with sweat, flails and bellows as a gum-chomping bigmouth whose amusing bluster gradually curdles into a revelation of utter bigotry.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2012

It wasn’t easy to root for the protagonists, a ragtag group of Wall Street bigmouths and one quirky California financial genius; they only won because millions of people lost their jobs and their homes.

From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2015

From the mid-60s on, on both sides of the Atlantic, the games we watched would be populated by charismatic bigmouths and noble warriors of duty, with nobody in between.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2011

But as a former inveterate blogger at frequent loggerheads with fellow bigmouths, engaging with the rest of the world has left him weary and wary.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2011

If nothing else, the Tunics and Brother have signalled the return of indie bigmouths who talk themselves up something rotten in interviews.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2010

Folks are no' a' Geordie Ritchies, an' they're no' a' bigmouths either.

From The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by James C. Welsh

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