Thesaurus:mouth

Thesaurus

mouth

English

Noun

Sense: the opening of a creature through which food is ingested

Synonyms

• bazoo (US, slang)
• cakehole (slang)
• chops (plural only)
• clam (US, slang, dated)
• clamshell (US, slang, obsolete)
• gob (slang)
• hash-trap (slang)
• kisser (slang)
• laughing gear (slang)
• maw
• mouth
• mush (slang)
• neb
• ned (obsolete)
• north and south (Cockney rhyming slang)
• oral cavity
• os
• piehole (slang)
• potato trap (slang)
• puss (slang)
• sucker
• trap (slang)
• yap (slang)

Meronyms

• grill (slang)
• gums
• jaw
• lip
• palate
• tooth    [⇒ thesaurus]
• tongue

Holonyms

• countenance    [⇒ thesaurus]
• face
• head    [⇒ thesaurus]
• body    [⇒ thesaurus]
• snout
• muzzle
•   —
• facial expression    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mien

Hypernyms

• body part
• orifice

Various

• a closed mouth gathers no feet
• all mouth and trousers
• bad taste in one's mouth
• butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
• don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• down in the mouth
• foam at the mouth
• hush one's mouth
• keep a civil tongue in one's mouth
• keep one's mouth shut
• lie ill in one's mouth
• mouth of a sailor
• one's heart in one's mouth
• open one's big mouth
• out of the mouths of babes
• potty mouth
• put words in someone's mouth
• put one's foot in one's mouth
• put one's money where one's mouth is
• shoot off at the mouth
• shut one's mouth
• straight from the horse's mouth
• wash one's mouth out
• watch one's mouth

See also

• Thesaurus:smile

Further reading

• “mouth” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “mouth” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.