mouthable
English
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editmouthable (not comparable)
- That may be taken into the mouth, especially in terms of objects in a house that an infant may suck on and which must therefore be free from toxic substances such as lead.
- (informal) Fine-sounding, of spoken words.
- 1950, Richard Church, Poems for speaking: an anthology with an essay on reading aloud:
- […] while our poetry rollicked in mouthable lines that, like the face of Helen 'launched a thousand ships […]
- 1975, The Listener, volume 94, page 281:
- […] probably the most mouthable of the self-mocking wisecracks […]