gapemouthed

See also: gape-mouthed

English

Adjective

gapemouthed (comparative more gapemouthed, superlative most gapemouthed)

1. Alternative form of gape-mouthed
   • 2003, Blues Revue - Issues 80-85, page 63:

     While the rock world seemed generally gapemouthed by the tragedy and the country crowd descended to knee-jerk jingoism, blues artists tried to put the whole horrible business in some sort of perspective.

   • 2013, Stephen King, Doctor Sleep: A Novel, →ISBN, page 420:

     One showed a gapemouthed cluster of little folks watching a magician pull a white rabbit from a hat.

   • 2013, Peter Bowen, The Yellowstone Kelly Novels, →ISBN:

     Every time I talk to a woman about some things I am left gapemouthed and wishing terribly that I had a large dog with a heavily callused butt.

   • 1993, Susan Malone, By the Book: A Novel, →ISBN, page 101:

     Standing on the big chair, she stuffed them into that gapemouthed fish.

   • 1974, James B. Meriwether, A Faulkner Miscellany, page 23:

     There are no more gapemouthed crocuses, or poppies wide with woe to wreath her fingers; the earth is a hunched and sightless woman, holding herself together with her hair.

Adverb

gapemouthed (comparative more gapemouthed, superlative most gapemouthed)

1. Alternative form of gape-mouthed
   • 1984, Fred Saberhagen, Machines That Kill, →ISBN, page 164:

     Abreast of the first soldier, he too took in the round collar and halted gapemouthed.