poormouth
See also: poor-mouth and poor mouth
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poormouth (third-person singular simple present poormouths, present participle poormouthing, simple past and past participle poormouthed)
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) To claim to be poor.
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claim to be poor
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Further reading edit
- “poor mouth”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.