bemouth

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ mouth.

Verb

bemouth (third-person singular simple present bemouths, present participle bemouthing, simple past and past participle bemouthed)

1. (transitive) To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.
2. (transitive) To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat.
   • 1841, Miss M. Corbett, The New Happy Week, page 161:

     Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power.

   • 1879, Theodore Tilton, The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume:

     All made of Flanders cloth,
     And now bemouthed of many a moth […]